A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
Jodi PicoultTags: inspirational advice happiness mathematical
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. MurrowTags: advice
Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.
Hugh MacLeodEveryone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.
Hugh MacLeodTags: humor art advice writing creativity crayons
Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.
George HarrisonTags: advice beatles comfort clothes
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.
Robert Louis StevensonTags: life inspirational advice
Light tomorrow with today.
George Barnard MooreTags: advice
If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.
Louis L'AmourGo not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: advice equivocation
I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The other is, "You should add more f-bombs.
Lincoln ParkTags: humor advice books writing
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