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- "I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing.
Just as I believ... See more - In our society, the spaces for adults to play are mostly constrained, for example, to sports, or going to the pub. And opportunities to live a life of imagination are reserved for exceptionally privileged people, like designers, actors, artists and film directors. This lack of imagination in our lives is an existential risk for society and humanity... See more
from Rewilding the Imagination by Medium
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.
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David Foster Wallace,from carry yourself lightly by Nix đ
- I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. S... See more
- Author Elizabeth Gilbert on time management:
âIf youâve reached a certain age then you know what works for you. You should know by this point in your life what time of day youâre âgood' â like what time of day is your brain at its best. Because the reality is we all get, maybe, two good hours a day where we actually feel awake and alert.
âAnd the big... See morefrom 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (November 14, 2019) | James Clear by jamesclear.com
- If you have at any point in your life lived a relatively structured existenceâprobably due to some kind of job with regular office hours, meetings, and the likeâyou will know that there is nothing more liberating than looking at your calendar and seeing nothing but free time for weeks ahead to work on the most important things in whatever order you... See more
from Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity by Marc Andreessen
- But I donât think obsessive hustling makes good literature, or good writers, because writing is only the second part of the work. Most of the work is just existing. Writing, like, I suspect, any creative art, is just an attempt to transcribe infinity. And you have to sink into infinity slowly.
from The Art of Writing a Novel Slowly by Daniel Southwell
- Iâd like to imagine a space where time is treated like we are gardens rather than machines - where time is attuned to our individual needs and given consistently, given softly, given with care.
from Time is Water by Annika Hansteen-Izora
- âIf you donât save a bit of your time for you, now, out of every week,â as she puts it, âthere is no moment in the future when youâll magically be done with everything and have loads of free time.â This is the same insight embodied in two venerable pieces of time management advice: to work on your most important project for the first hour of each d... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals