“How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.” TryingYearsDoeWaterFireGrowingGoes OnSixFindingsPlantSevenQuittingSoilSeven YearsCornCropsReapBeansPeasTractors Author:Stephen King
“Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.” BelieveMeanLongDoeDarkStruggleFindingsDoctorsOriginalsBelieve In GodReally Mean Book:Nobel Prize Library Source: Nobel Prize Library
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.” KnowsDoeArtMatterInspirationArtistVoiceCommunityMemoriesKnowingMastersFindingsCreatingChaosOneselfInventionVoidDiscourseVocationAwakenedAdoptingPurifying Author:Lewis Hyde
“What is the best that lies within us? Of how much are we capable? None of us yet knows. An old Arabic legend tells of a rider finding a spindly sparrow lying on its back in the middle of the road. He dismounted and asked the sparrow why his feet were in the air. Replied the sparrow, "I heard the heavens were going to fall today." "And I suppose you think your puny bird legs can hold up the whole universe?" laughed the horseman. "Perhaps not," said the sparrow with conviction, "but one does whatever one can.” ThinkingKnowsDoeSaidWholeTodayLyingFallUniverseHeavenHeardAirFeetMiddleFindingsCapableBirdConvictionLegsLaughedLegendsRidersSparrowsHorsemenMiddle Of The Road Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.” MenWayFeelsShouldLongDoeShowsLostPathFindingsGuidesMockRight PathIncapacity Book:The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated) Source: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)