“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.” WritingFirstsBelieveWellsIdeasHardGamesLostBornPerfectAcceptingEmotionalPercentEssenceOddsEquityRewritingWriting Well Author:William Zinsser
“Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are?” ThinkingWayBornLosesAcceptingBabySightMiracleMediocrityAccept MeMiracle Of LifeThinking Differently Author:Hal Elrod
“The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.” KnowsMenHas BeensArtDoneUseSeemsAbleArtistBornKnownAcceptingOrdinaryLifetimeRejectsAfternoonNow And ThenGreat ArtGreat ArtistOrdinary Man Book:The Hemingway Collection Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like "as such." All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.” PeopleWayMindSpiritualBornLevelsExistenceAcceptingKnowingInfluenceEffectsEgoConstantUnconsciousManifestPsychicsObjections Author:Wolfgang Pauli
“There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State."” MenWorldWayMayStatesWisdomGovernmentFormThreeAsksPoliticsBornAcceptingEconomyModernSecuritySlaverySlaveSurrenderRussiaWelfareLiberalismInvitesModern WorldServitudeSatellitesWelfare StateFree WorldThree Ways Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.” KnowsMindMayEndsEnoughCareLostWishEasyBornAcceptingAtheismReturnIllusionRateIntellectPositive AtheismComplainingImmortalityRemoveSugarOblivionCraveFear NotFear NothingPlumsElysium Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.” ThreeBornHoursAcceptingExerciseShapesBasesSizeCommitMealsThree Things Author:Paula Abdul
“Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.” WorldWayShouldLittlesStatesFatherBornDarkWhiteUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesGenerationsGroupsCenturyTaughtDirectBitterResentmentContinentsAcquaintanceInvitationsMy GenerationPicnicsDistasteRecoil Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.” RomanceBeliefBornImaginationAcceptingChristianityEuropeFilledSpreadContradictionSuperstitionsAbsurdityMetaphysicalArdentImbeciles Author:Frederick The Great
“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.” FirstsTwoLightMightHappinessJoyMotherBornAcceptingBabyMomLoversLaughterAngelSmileEnvyPregnancyFunny InspirationalBabeBeing A MomEnviedMother's LoveMy AngelGreatest MomBeautiful PregnancyEnvy And SuccessSentimental MotherI Love Being A MomInspirational PregnancyLove My MomFirst Pregnancy Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“When we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it.” IfsKnowsWantFirstsKindSelfEnergyBornAcceptingKnow HowAngerAngry Author:Nhat Hanh
“I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.” ThinkingFeelsTryingRealReasonFactsRealityJobsPurposeArtistSufferingDiesGivenBornAcceptingGoneForeverSolutionsTrue Fact Author:Woody Allen
“I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.” KnowsMenWayLongKidsBornChallengesRaceAcceptingGrowing UpGrowingFeetBeatsPushingTestosteroneKids Growing UpChallenging Myself Author:Katie Uhlaender
“As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept that different people have seen a different film.” PeopleMindPersonsDifferentMomentsFilmBornMemoriesAcceptingDifferent PeoplesMisconception Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.” IfsWorldPersonsImportantMatterHappensBornAcceptingLaughingThis WorldNegativeWho You AreUnhappyCynicalBeing PositivePositive Person Author:Bipasha Basu
“To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."” SaidBornAcceptingDestinyFateMastersResponsibleWomanhoodOur DestinyYour DestinyFate Destiny Book:One Minute Wisdom Source: One Minute Wisdom
“If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.” IfsWayYearsKindHas BeensDifferentDonePlayAgeBornFictionAcceptingFantasyPaintingIndustryMoralityHorrorScience FictionGenreAbstractDifferent KindsHorror GenreAbstract Painting Author:Lance Henriksen