Mason Currey Quotes

#1. to sustain these true moments of insight one has to be highly disciplined, lead a disciplined life,

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#2. It's the hardest work in the world to try not to work. - N.C. Wyeth

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#3. Inspiration is for amateurs," Close says. "The rest of us just show up and get to work.

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#4. I simply get up in the morning and go to work, and I read at night. Like Abe Lincoln. - Saul Bellow

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#5. We have failed to recognize our great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing. - Friedrich Schiller

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#6. A mathematician," he liked to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.

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#7. A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one's mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods.

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#8. My life has been regulated by insomnia," Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993.

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#9. Heller wrote Catch-22 in the evenings after work, sitting at the kitchen table in his Manhattan apartment.

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#10. (John Cheever thought that you couldn't even type a business letter without revealing something of your inner self - isn't that the truth?)

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#11. My experience has been that most really serious creative people I know have very, very routine and not particularly glamorous work habits," Adams said

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#12. Like the pugilist," Gershwin said, "the songwriter must always keep in training.

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#13. It's cleansing. If I hadn't been at work all the time, I would have been a lunatic.

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#14. I shall always be depressed," Beckett concluded, "but what comforts me is the realization that I can now accept this dark side as the commanding side of my personality. In accepting it, I will make it work for me.

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#15. Descartes believed that idleness was essential to good mental work,

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#16. when there doesn't seem to be enough time for all you hope to accomplish, must you give things up (sleep, income, a clean house), or can you learn to condense activities, to do more in less time, to "work smarter, not harder,

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#17. Life has much uneasiness; that is certain. Always remember that, and it will never surprise you. - James Boswell

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#18. Bacon always woke at the first light of day and worked for several hours, usually finishing around noon.

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#19. eggs, vegetables, cheese or fruit, and a cup of cold chocolate. Then

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#20. Recollect that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action - and consequently accumulate grain on grain of willful choice like a very miser - never forgetting how one link dropped undone and indefinite number. - William James

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#21. One can be very fertile without having to work too much. Three hours in the morning. Three hours in the evening. This is my only rule. - Jean-Paul Sartre

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#22. After all," as he wrote years later, "work is still the best way of escaping from life!

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