#edit

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#become #begun #best #buckets #conscious

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. ↗

— George Woodcock

#compromise #editing #go #half #i

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#meditation #mind #reality #remorse #thinking

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#capable #credit #draw #extent #full

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable. ↗

— Loretta Young

#due #form #giving #habit #inestimable

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3. ↗

— Steve Zahn

#another #come #day #form #i

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#creditors #debt #power #shifts #world

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#capital #cheap #cost #credit #down

Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score? ↗

— Mark Zandi

#before #borrower #borrowers #credit #debt

The average credit score of today's FHA borrowers is higher than the average American household with a score. As it becomes more costly and difficult to get a FHA loan, loans from private mortgage lenders will become more attractive and their market share will grow. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#attractive #average #average american #become #becomes