This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves....
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
The hardest thing in the world is to be ourselves. Who are we? Our family tells us, society tells us, laws and customs tell us. But what do we say? How do we get to that place of self-knowledge and co...
The children who were able to sit for three minutes with a marshmallow on the table in front of them without eating it were rewarded with two marshmallows when the experimenter returned. But that's as...
Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop.
He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-disci...
Problem with friends and family is that they know us as we are. They are invested in maintaining us as we are.
It. If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist? chances are you are.
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for?They are trying to take everything...
The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point...
The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned...
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
The hill is a sonofabitch but what can you do? Set one foot in front of another and keep climbing.
The enemy is in you, but it is not you.
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
The acquisition of a condition lends significance to one's existence. An illness, a cross to bear. Some people go from condition to condition; they cure one, and another pops up to take its place. The...
The Spartan king Agesilaus was still fighting in armor when he was eighty-two. Picasso was painting past ninety, and Henry Miller was chasing women (I'm sure Picasso was too) at eighty-nine.Once we tu...
The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist.