Top 35 Mason Currey Quotes
#1. The term 'sexual orientation' ... is basically a code word for homosexuality.
Scott Lively
#2. (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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#3. 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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#4. Like the pugilist," Gershwin said, "the songwriter must always keep in training.
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#5. It's cleansing. If I hadn't been at work all the time, I would have been a lunatic.
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#6. 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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#7. Moral' means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That is the ultimate meaning of morality.
Dada Bhagwan
#8. Descartes believed that idleness was essential to good mental work,
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#9. 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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#10. I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.
Andrew Flintoff
#11. Life has much uneasiness; that is certain. Always remember that, and it will never surprise you. - James Boswell
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#12. Bacon always woke at the first light of day and worked for several hours, usually finishing around noon.
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#13. eggs, vegetables, cheese or fruit, and a cup of cold chocolate. Then
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#14. 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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#16. 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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#17. Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss.
Timothy F. Cahill
#18. After all," as he wrote years later, "work is still the best way of escaping from life!
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#19. 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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#20. Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.
Dillon Burroughs
#21. It's the hardest work in the world to try not to work. - N.C. Wyeth
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#22. I don't care what you think, your junk does not have special abilities.
Jeaniene Frost
#23. The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
Henry A. Kissinger
#24. Inspiration is for amateurs," Close says. "The rest of us just show up and get to work.
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#26. Do you realize that you gave me the best orgasm of my life and we haven't even kissed?
Katie Reus
#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. to sustain these true moments of insight one has to be highly disciplined, lead a disciplined life,
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#29. Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#30. A mathematician," he liked to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
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#31. I believe in the World as in a daisy.
Because I see it. But I don't think about it
Because thinking is not understanding ...
Fernando Pessoa
#32. 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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#33. Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?"
"I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.
Madeline Miller
#34. My life has been regulated by insomnia," Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993.
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#35. Heller wrote Catch-22 in the evenings after work, sitting at the kitchen table in his Manhattan apartment.
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