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#1

“Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.”
― John Muir

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#2

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#3

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

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#4

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
― H. G. Wells

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#5

“People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase

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#6

“We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You

tags: balanced-life, be-true-to-yourself, follow-your-heart, inner-voice, inspiration, motivation, self-discovery, self-improvement

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#7

“Be happy NOW. This moment is all you’ve got”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You

tags: attitude, happiness, inspiration, inspirational-attitude, live-in-the-here-and-now, live-in-the-moment, self-improvement

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#8

“People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You

tags: boundaries, empowerment, honor-yourself, time-investment, time-management, work-life-balance

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#9

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: bird-by-bird, breaking-down-assignment, childhood, encouragement, homework, project, project-management, school, time, time-management, writing, writing-advice

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#10

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." -”
― Michael Altshuler

tags: time-flies, time-management

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#11

“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: time, time-management

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#12

“If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

tags: commitment, human-nature, motivation, time, time-management, writing

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#13

“He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: plan, procrastination, time-management

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#14

“You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.”
― Tony Morgan

tags: time-management

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#15

“You can't make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.”
― Ashley Ormon

tags: time-management

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#16

“Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.”
― Dee Dee Artner

tags: focus, happiness, happy, interpret, interpretation, life, life-lessons, millionaire, millionaire-focus, millionaire-mind, millionaire-mindset, people, productivity, results, solution, strategy, success, time, time-management, time-waster

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#17

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
― Yale Richmond, Understanding the Americans: A Handbook for Visitors to the United States

tags: time-management

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#18

“A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

tags: mortality, time-management

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#19

“To have more peace, as well as more time, start by letting go of the notion that time can be manipulated. Then, let go of the idea that it confines you. Instead, set out to use the time that is there for its true and best purpose – as the space within which you can live your life to the fullest.”
― Michelle Passoff

tags: self-help, time-management

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#20

“Each day, wake up with a plan. Don’t just approach your days in an unfocused void. That state of mind leaves too much room for discontent, opposition, unhappiness and hopelessness.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

tags: carlos-wallace, focus, focus-on-positive, focus-on-success, focus-on-your-dreams, focus-quotes, focused, focusing, planning, plans, time-management, time-quotes, wake-up

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#21

“You don't get time.
You create time.”
― Sanhita Baruah

tags: dreams, goals, lack-of-time, management, motivation, objectives, priorities, purpose, time, time-management

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#22

“Time is the single most important resource that we have. Every single minute we lose is never coming back.”
― Tarun Sharma

tags: important-things-in-life, inspirational, life, life-lessons, life-quotes, resources, thought-provoking, thoughts-on-life, time, time-management

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#23

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#24

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#25

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#26

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#27

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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#28

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#29

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#30

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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