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Aug. 15th, 2006 03:52 pmbedlamsbardGo here and look through random quotes until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.
I did 10, because I like quotes.
1. Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
No, that's why we have stories. The world sucks, man. But if it's your own personal world sucking, it somehow makes more sense. It's better to lose yourself in your imagination than to lose your imagination.
2. Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Twelfth Night'
Yes. I believe in fate, but I also believe in free will and that the two depend on each other to survive.
3. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
Heart, baby. It's all about heart.
4. If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 6. Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten., 08-22-04
Write what's in your heart, not what other people want you to write. Try and write what you don't want to write, and it'll suck.
5. Follow the grain in your own wood.
Howard Thurman
Be yourself, because who the hell else are you going to be? I mean, even if you are a writer, which is, like, an invitation to multi-personality disorder, you're still you.
6. If you can't be funny, be interesting.
Harold Ross
People keep telling me I'm funny, which is very strange because I am, occasionally, but it's because I have great comedic timing and come on, I'm a writer in the Internet era, I grew up in snark so it's engrained in me. However, I always try to be interesting.
7. If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
Yeah, I'm one of those "if you don't try anything, you'll never get anything" people. But hey, it's true, and it's gotten me things and lost me things.
8. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
What's in your head doesn't mean a fucking thing. Other people can't see that. The only things they're going to see are what you do and what you say, and those're the only things that're going to have consequences. Ever.
9. The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Let it just be said that I am a vindictive bitch.
10. Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
Writer. MPD. Do you really need my opinion on this?
I did 10, because I like quotes.
1. Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
No, that's why we have stories. The world sucks, man. But if it's your own personal world sucking, it somehow makes more sense. It's better to lose yourself in your imagination than to lose your imagination.
2. Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Twelfth Night'
Yes. I believe in fate, but I also believe in free will and that the two depend on each other to survive.
3. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
Heart, baby. It's all about heart.
4. If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 6. Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten., 08-22-04
Write what's in your heart, not what other people want you to write. Try and write what you don't want to write, and it'll suck.
5. Follow the grain in your own wood.
Howard Thurman
Be yourself, because who the hell else are you going to be? I mean, even if you are a writer, which is, like, an invitation to multi-personality disorder, you're still you.
6. If you can't be funny, be interesting.
Harold Ross
People keep telling me I'm funny, which is very strange because I am, occasionally, but it's because I have great comedic timing and come on, I'm a writer in the Internet era, I grew up in snark so it's engrained in me. However, I always try to be interesting.
7. If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
Yeah, I'm one of those "if you don't try anything, you'll never get anything" people. But hey, it's true, and it's gotten me things and lost me things.
8. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
What's in your head doesn't mean a fucking thing. Other people can't see that. The only things they're going to see are what you do and what you say, and those're the only things that're going to have consequences. Ever.
9. The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Let it just be said that I am a vindictive bitch.
10. Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
Writer. MPD. Do you really need my opinion on this?