#hi

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that. ↗

— Greg Egan

#being #fastest #new #ones #only

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#best #better #community #help #i

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bombed #burned #children #civilians #clear

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#decide #difficult #more #nothing #precious

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#coming #continue #daily #deadlines #done

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. ↗

— Epictetus

#begin #impossible #knows #learn #thinks

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#attention #day #finished #finishing #front

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#dharma #know #neither #nor #nothing

The bathing suits they had me wear on Baywatch were all one-pieces, which kill my figure. ↗

— Nicole Eggert

#baywatch #figure #had #kill #me

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#confidence #directing #else #entirely #i