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“Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.”

Needs Action Waiting Perfect Conditions Habit

Author:David J. Schwartz

“A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.”

Source: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors”

“After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water?”

Needs Humor Funny Waiting Water Hours Eating Amphibians

Author:Steven Wright

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”

“I admire actors for their infinite patience. That's why they need all those trailers and all their crowd of people who pamper them. But it is a drag to get up sometimes at 4:30 in the morning and get into makeup, and wait forever until they call you onto the set.”

People Needs Sometimes Actors Waiting Morning Forever Infinite Crowds Admire Get Up Makeup Drag Trailers

Author:Roman Polanski

“You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Important Book Force Waiting Realizing Poet Reader Importance Echoes Publish Cliffs Dropping

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.”

Needs Hate Waiting Instruction Again And Again Provoked

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. I've fallen in love many times... always with you. What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

“Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.”

Needs Stories Next Waiting Land Fine Details Sentences Prose Links Sweat Short Story Crave

Author:Tea Obreht

“By closely supervising our infants, by allowing them to do what they are capable of, by restraining ourselves from rescuing them too often, by waiting and waiting and waiting, by giving minimal help when they really need it, we allow our infants to learn and grow at their own time and in their own way. I believe that, no matter how much and how fast the world changes, a well-grounded, competent, and confident person is best equipped to adapt to it. This is our goal.”

World Way Needs Giving Believe Wells Persons Matter Helping I Believe Grows Waiting Goal Capable Allowing Grounded Infant Competent Restraining

Author:Magda Gerber

“If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Whole Character Stories Waiting Four Minutes Impact Toms Springsteen

Author:Tim Leffel

“I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played. You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out. You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments. All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation.”

Thinking Needs Wells Sometimes Play Might Spiritual Waiting Voice Can Do Path Creation Divine Instruments Add Various Suits Orchestra Symphony Spiritual Path Suits You

Author:Kent Nerburn