For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to write than it is to study about writing.

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy- or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others... the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities.

People so often look with longing into a daydream future, while ignoring the importance of the present. We are all in danger of thinking, "Some day I shall be fulfilled. Some day I shall have the courage to start another life which will develop my talent," without ever considering the very practical use of that talent today in a way which will enrich other people's lives, develop the talent, and express the fact of being a creative creature.

Even if you can not sculpt great foundations, because you have not got that sort of talent, at least carve a child's toy... Start SOMEWHERE. Do not let this desire be simply a frustration that turns into bitterness when it could grow and develop, given some small outlet..

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing.

When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings.

Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

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If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation?