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“Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.”

Writing Matter Morning Four Procrastination Writer's Block Infomercials

Author:Paul Rudnick

“The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it to the next telephone pole in the distance. Whether you're running twenty or one hundred and twenty miles at a time, the distance has to be tackled mentally and physically one mile at a time. The ability to compartmentalize pain into these small bite sizes is key.”

Source: Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life

“My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.”

Two Four Bottom Studios Flight Obsessed Flats Stairs Landlord Staircases

Author:Craig Stone

“Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.”

“Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.”

Ifs Men Play Care Humanity Hours Leader Four Streets Strange Ready Optimism Towns Following Pleasant Tunes March Rhyme Banner Fondness Procession

Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.”

“I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.”

People Firsts Littles Remember Night Church Four Minutes Cold Ten Tiny Nervous Florida Sermons Cold Night

Author:Billy Graham

“I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.”

Years Kind Character Three Stuff Four Lucky Speech Pages Stuff I Like

Author:Donal Logue

“My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."”

Men Giving Should Writing Sometimes Voice Four Terrible Giving Up Cat Critical Sentences Coffee Awake Pet Dragons Eggs Breakfast Clicks Best Times Disclosure

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background. It's not like I just ran one day and all of a sudden became a champion. It was a lot of work.”

Firsts Ends Race Four Months One Day Backgrounds Ran Champion March

Author:Edwin Moses

“I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.”

Knows Sometimes Hours Four Written Computer Sentences Journalist Sweat Bullets Paragraph

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.”

Ifs Years Two Voice Half Four Wife Bears Conversation Adults My Wife Nightmare Scream Woody Yogi Cowgirls Elmo Yogi Bear

Author:Judd Apatow

“I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.”

Feels Art Done Five Four Week Art Is Train Feel Good Martial Arts

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.”

Want Needs Film Choices Realizing Four Cutting Color Directors Alternatives Identical

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?”

Ifs Long Art Stuff Forget Company Successful Records Four Painting Equal Lawyer Forget It Gallery Record Companies Patron Leonardo Publicists

Author:Debbie Harry

“When you've got kids, it's a big undertaking. It's like doing four movies in a row.”

Bigs Kids Four Undertakings

Author:Scott Raab

“And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.”

War Greater Four Mouths All Things Horse South Puff

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“I was surprised that each expert cared for different images, and had varied suggestions for how to continue my work. If each expert had been my teacher, I would have pursued four different directions, and lost my way.”

Ifs Way Different Lost Teacher Four Teaching My Way Experts Suggestions Pursued Different Directions

Author:Jane Fulton Alt

“There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course.”

“These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.”

Ifs Sound Four Band Gang

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.”

Kids Turns Three Interesting Four Singers Really Interesting

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.”

Night Father Rooms Four Apartment Lap Mockingbird Kill A Mockingbird Four Rooms

Author:Jim Trelease

“We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.”

Ifs Want Wells Looks Lasts Values Attitude Morning Greater Four Produce Okay Dollars Charity Profit Advertising Clock Pennies Needy Donation

Author:Dan Pallotta

“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.”

People Thinking Years Long Would Be Forget Four Paper News Twenties Decades Disappointed Papers Dropping Finishing Bad News Expectancy Life Expectancy Convocation

Author:Adrian Tan

“Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.”

Should Years Moments Three Four Retiring Four Years Should I

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.”

Two Soul Four Sweet Pure Kissing Lips Affection Ingredients Pure Soul

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.”

Ideas Four Comfort Capitalism Dignity Myth Bitter Mockery Benign American Family

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just as mightily in the service of wonder and the two elements are complementary, not independent or opposed. The thought fills me with awe - a mechanical contraption that could fit in the back of a pickup truck, traveling through space for twelve years, dodging around four giant bodies and their associated moons, and finally sending exquisite photos across more than four light-hours of space from the farthest planet in our solar system.”

Years Two Body Light Hours Space Wonder Four Planets Fit Moon Elements Intellectual Independent Worthy Giants Awe Twelve Truck Exquisite Solar System Complementary Pickups Pickup Trucks

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end.”

Years Ends Reading Religious Results Four Fifty Sixty Enquiry

Book:Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American

Source: Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American

“Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.”

Source: The Complete Poetry of O. Henry (Including a Biography of the Author): From the American writer, a master of short stories, known for The Gift of the Magi, Cabbages and Kings, The Cop and the Anthem, Options, Roads of Destiny, The Four Million…

“Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.”

Answers Four Judging Judgment

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.”

Men World Way Lying Stars Five Four Century Mountain Ocean Lonely Bounds

Book:The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

“New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes.”

Knows Mean Used Loses Cities Millions Four New York Vote New York City Rats

Author:David Letterman

“Life is a four-letter word.”

Life Is Four Letters Four Letter Words

Author:Lenny Bruce

“Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.”

Feels Should Children Littles Eye Voice Lines Boys Four Wonderful Tough Mark Misery His Eyes Spokes Whiskey Little Boys Whisky Scotch Whiskey

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, "Man, I wish I had your willpower.”

Men Said Guy Wish Four Streets Homeless Willpower

Book:It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

“A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.”

People Littles Saws Four Century Wind Shame Gentle Friendly Humiliation Breeze Ghetto Humiliated Invisibility

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.”

Play School Four Brits Adverts

Author:Jessie J

“And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly, think weakly, and see untruly (second order of poets); the men who feel strongly, think strongly, and see truly (first order of poets); and the men who, strong as human creatures can be, are yet submitted to influences stronger than they, and see in a sort untruly, because what they see is inconceivably above them. This last is the usual condition of prophetic inspiration.”

Thinking Men Feels Firsts Humans Inspiration Lasts Order Strong Class Four Influence Conditions He Man Poet Creatures Stronger Usual Prophetic

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.”

“An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.”

Wells Four Wall Pockets Four Walls

Author:Anton Chekhov

“There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.”

People World Kind Four This World Fool Moron Pendulums

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis.”

Should Children Eye Law Young Hours Race Watches Four Conditions Television Bases Twenties Incessant Mutants

Author:Federico Fellini

“Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.”

May Littles Long Waiting Four Fields Luck Little Things Hunts Good Luck Hay Clovers

Author:Sarah Orne Jewett

“Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.”

Ifs Want Hours Mistake Four Solitude Twenties Constant Crowds Distraction Wherever You Are Honeymoon Arranging

Book:The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Three Acts

Source: The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Three Acts

“Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.”

“In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.”

“My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.”

People Writing Matter Four Feet Dad No Matter What My Dad Do It Yourself

Author:Tiger Woods

“In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.”

“All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.”

Four Blind Holes Worms Moles

Book:Down-Adown-Derry

Source: Down-Adown-Derry