writing in the desert

QUOTES used in Lee Silber's book,
Time Management For The Creative Person:

"The only limit to what you can achieve is the extent to which you can clearly define it."
-- Anonymous

"Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it."
-- Maxwell Perkins (editor - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, etc.)

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started by a mouse.
-- Walt Disney

"Never, never, never quit."
-- Winston Churchill

"Without discipline, there's no life at all."
-- Katharine Hepburn

"I'm always interested in the right things at the wrong time."
-- Andy Warhol

"Success rests with having the courage and endurance and above all the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, 'I have found my hero and he is me.'"
-- Dr. George Sheehan

"Every creative person is a duality or a synthesis of contradictory aptitudes."
-- Carl Jung

"Commandment number one of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.
-- David Grayson

"The triumph over anything is a matter of organization."
-- Kurt Vonnegut

"Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday."
-- David Ogilvy

"Our life is frittered away by detail....Simplify. Simplify."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
-- Eddie Cantor

"You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough."
-- Joe E. Lewis

"Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor."
-- Paul Hawken

"If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priorities of others."
-- Donald Rumsfeld

"Time is what we want most but what we use worst."
-- William Penn

"It is better to have a bad plan than no plan at all."
-- Charles de Gaulle

"Concentration is the secret of strength."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I enjoy writing in the desert. There are no distractions such as telephones, theaters, opera houses, and gardens."
-- Agatha Christie

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
-- Lucille Ball

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
-- Wayne Gretzky
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Under the caption, "Motivation Boosters", some of the entries --

Make some changes. Redecorate....

Fake it till you make it. [Think, "success".]

Help others...

Find a role model or mentor you can turn to for advice and support.

Go one week without criticizing, complaining, or condemning.

Smile. A lot.

Put up signs that say "Yes!" all over your house.

Take action.
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That one about "Yes!" makes me think of an interview with John Lennon that I read: when he met Yoko Ono at an art show in -- (Europe? Japan?) -- at her display, the viewer had to climb a ladder and then look into something. He thought it was going to say, "F--- you" or something, but it just said, "Yes". ...

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"I've been on a calendar but never on time."
-- Marilyn Monroe

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