Top 30 Currey Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Dirty talk is an art. Do it too often, it becomes routine. Never do it, and you're missing something. Simon did it just right. He was like a perfect bowl of smutty porridge: just right.
Alice Clayton
#3. It's my job to help people so that God can continue to help them live out the mission that they have ... they've got to be healthy to do that.
Lee Haney
#4. After all," as he wrote years later, "work is still the best way of escaping from life!
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. eggs, vegetables, cheese or fruit, and a cup of cold chocolate. Then
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#8. Bacon always woke at the first light of day and worked for several hours, usually finishing around noon.
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#9. Life has much uneasiness; that is certain. Always remember that, and it will never surprise you. - James Boswell
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#10. 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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#11. Descartes believed that idleness was essential to good mental work,
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#12. 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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#13. It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W.C. Fields
#14. It's cleansing. If I hadn't been at work all the time, I would have been a lunatic.
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#15. Like the pugilist," Gershwin said, "the songwriter must always keep in training.
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#16. to sustain these true moments of insight one has to be highly disciplined, lead a disciplined life,
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#17. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
#18. I eat apples whole, seeds and all ... yes, like a horse.
Trevor Donovan
#19. (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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#20. It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
John Cheever
#21. Heller wrote Catch-22 in the evenings after work, sitting at the kitchen table in his Manhattan apartment.
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#22. My life has been regulated by insomnia," Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993.
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#23. Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
Jerry Della Femina
#24. 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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#25. A mathematician," he liked to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. Inspiration is for amateurs," Close says. "The rest of us just show up and get to work.
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#29. Look, Paul. I appreciate what you're telling me, but I gave Jake my word. Not to mention the fact, he'd throw my ass in jail if he found out I tried to go around him."
"He wouldn't, you know," he said. "Jake's a pussycat."
Yeah, just a big old saber-toothed tiger.
Josh Lanyon
#30. It's the hardest work in the world to try not to work. - N.C. Wyeth
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