Stegner Fellowship Quotes

#1. Maybe Nike has it right. At some point we have to stop thinking, and just do it.

Katty Kay

#2. Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.

Edith Hamilton

#3. Am I gonna traumatize the fat cat if he sees me fuckin' you?"
"As you know, his name is Spot, and he's immune to trauma. You can't feel it if your life is devoted to dishing it out.

Kristen Ashley

#4. You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it's vital that a change happens now.

Mos Def

#5. Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Tony Abbott

#6. Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Jimmy Hoffa

#7. Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

William James

#8. When the will of God crosses the will of man, somebody has to die.

Elisabeth Elliot

#9. People in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.

Joseph O'Neill

#10. The work of reflection is something you have to do for yourself. No one else can make you wise.

Eric Greitens

#11. The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?

Lewis Carroll

#12. In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.

Dan Millman

#13. Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

Norman Vincent Peale

#14. Every pain has a gain behind it

Swami Satchidananda