#be

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find. ↗

— E.L. Konigsburg

#self-discovery #self-discovery

So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying? ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doctor-who #the-beast-below #doctor-who

I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#the-bells-of-saint-john #the-doctor #timey-wimey #doctor-who

I have not the pleasure of understanding you. ↗

— Jane Austen

#understanding

I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean. ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#starting-a-book #writing #writing-advice #writing-fiction #writing-advice

Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achievements #believe #believe-and-achieve #dare #dare-to-win

It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#mothers #thoughts #beauty

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it. ↗

— Aljean Harmetz

#lies #lying #writers #writing #world-war-ii

Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before cancer - I would eat red meat probably three or four times a week, easily. I am convinced that the amount of red meat I contributed to it. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#am #amount #before #cancer #chop

So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#countries #formerly #full #members #nato