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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.
When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony.
See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.
Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.
It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.
There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'
One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.
By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.
We're trying to fill something internal with something external. We're trying to fill something real with something illusionary.
You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.
To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you.
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
Traders focus almost entirely on where to enter a trade. In reality, the entry size is often more important than the entry price
To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.
We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.
You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.
Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.
Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.
I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.
If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.
The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.
We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.
I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?
We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.
Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?" Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?
I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.
Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.
When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn't want to hear from it, it got chatty. It was alost as irritating as Fang.
The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.