Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brenda Ueland

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Jane Hirshfield

The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

Charles Churchill

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

Charles Colson

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

Charles Darwin

People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].

Jane Austen

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

Anurag Kashyap

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

Alex Kapranos

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.

Angela Ruggiero

The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.

T. Harv Eker

Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success.

Ray Lewis

Success is one thing, impact is another

Simon Sinek

Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact.

Tony Dungy

You can have an impact anywhere you are.

Steve Ballmer

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

Roy H. Williams

Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.

Billy Blanks

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

Elihu Root

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

Anna Deavere Smith

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

Steve Earle

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

Ryan Jones

I think the discipline in our school is wonderful.

Wayne Thiebaud

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Martha Graham

Discipline is liberation.

Natasha Leggero

For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.

Mark Hopkins

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.