#instruct

Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible ↗

— Roger Rosenblatt

#inspiration-for-writers #writing-instruction #art

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#instructional #power-of-thoughts #inspirational

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#amuse #children #instruction #like #live

Books are truer than movies. ↗

— Adam Levin

#movies

This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#enjoy #life-instructions #operating-manual #life

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#instruction #painted #photograph #picture #sun

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. ↗

— Xun Zi

#generous #gentleman #instruct #magnanimous #opens

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#god #his #instruct #love #man

I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey. ↗

— Treat Williams

#company #helicopter #i #instruction #jersey

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#amount #budget #create #give #give me