Rebecca Goldstein Quote

. . . there are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to...

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

Q: What's the biggest myth about writing?A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate.[

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of thei...

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over beca...