#process

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#inspirational #writing #writing-process #inspirational

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creativity #writing #writing-advice #writing-process #writing-advice

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ... ↗

— John Geddes

#perspective #writing-advice #writing-process #writing-advice

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. ↗

— Don Roff

#finishing #revising #tips #tips-on-writing #torture

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby. ↗

— Criss Jami

#belief #clever #comparison #control #crying

If you want engagement, you must engage. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement

Chaos is the enemy of any organization the strives to be outstanding. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement

When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they become "producers " they fall away from exploration and start fishing for the right answers with little thought. They believe they must always be right, so they quickly forget mistakes and how these mistakes were made. They believe that the only good response from the teacher is "yes," and that a "no" is defeat. ↗

— John Holt

#education #learning-process #education

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien ↗

— Sharon O'Brien

#writing #writing-from-the-heart #writing-process #love

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#breath #each #experience #how #just