“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.” NeedsFirstsBookIdeasStoriesFormAbilityAcceptingNovelGutsImperfectUncertainRevision Book:Conversations with Bernard Malamud Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud
“The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.” TryingFirstsHumansFormForgetFundamentalsStupidityHuman Stupidity Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.” MindFirstsHumansMadeFormHighestShotsPhilosopherI RealizedStatementsIndianNonsenseObservingEvaluationHuman Intelligence Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.” ThinkingKnowsWorldShouldFirstsFormNamesGivenPoorExistenceAcceptingPovertyFirst TimeConclusionAwardsPoorestHomage Author:Mother Teresa
“I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.” YearsFirstsFormPagesNotesResponseGrantsApplicationEstablishmentAssertivenessHandwritten Notes Book:Push Comes to Shove Source: Push Comes to Shove
“First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man's; that he possesses body, parts and passions; that in a word, God is an exalted, perfected man. Secondly, we believe in a plurality of Gods. Third, we believe that somewhere and some time in the ages to come, through development, through enlargement, through purification until perfection is attained, man at last may become like God - a God.” MenFirstsBelieveMayBodyAgeLastsFormPassionDevelopmentPerfectionThirdsExaltedPurificationEnlargement Author:B. H. Roberts
“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.” FirstsMayEndsShowsChristianFormReligionThreeChurchAcceptingChristianityCenturyThirdsCatholicInstitutionsStructureComplexesScriptureContemporaryOrthodoxCreedsDiverseTestamentPremisesNew TestamentProtestantsChristian ChurchCanonApostolicUnanimity Author:Elaine Pagels
“Matter is the evolution of energy. First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. Matter is only thought that has been thought upon by more.” FirstsHas BeensMatterFormEnergyEvolutionManifestation Author:Esther Hicks