“You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.” WritingTryingWholeEyeHurtPiecesSentencesReleaseSectionsPerfectionismParagraphNew Eyes Author:Anne Lamott
“It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.” KnowsWellsLongHelpingAbleFightingCausesHurtKnownPiecesSeriousGunAdvantageMiracleEnglandShipsFasterRangeSailingWell KnownGod HelpAloofGod Help Us Author:Nicholas Rodger
“Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.” WayMayHandsKidsAbleCertainEasyHurtPiecesDoorsMaterialsWindowCleverGrassPotPerformersMarijuanaIt HurtsMediocreHurt MeWindows And Doors Author:George Carlin
“When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.” WayWritingHardActorsHurtPiecesPaintingCriticismCriticizeWhere You Are Author:Meryl Streep
“I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.” HumorFunnyHurtPiecesAdmireIt HurtsFurnitureWorkmanshipIkea Author:Bill Bailey
“I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator. If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that's not cool.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtImportantAbleValuesOrderHurtPiecesCreationParticularIntellectualPropertyCreatorStealingCopiesEnd TimesSpend TimeCopyrightIntellectual PropertyReplicateConceiving Author:Shepard Fairey
“It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.” FeelingsLawHoursHurtLossResultsPiecesEconomicCenturyTenTradeBillsSlaveProfitOperationsHistorianIt HurtsLegislationHumanitarianism19th CenturyAbolitionMarxistSlave TradeNoblemenProfit And Loss Author:Barbara Tuchman