#roc

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#human-nature #improvement #procrastinating #procrastination #waiting

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding... ↗

— Brian Greene

#insight #intelligence #investigation #process #science

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation. ↗

— Patti Smith

#communication

Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as we say in Australia, giving it a bloody go! ↗

— Margie Warrell

#courage #failure #fear #procrastination #timidity

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#impermanence #life-and-death #naruto #orochimaru #death

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#death #edward-fairfax-rochester #honeymoon #jane-eyre #life

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#death #fuck #love #swearing #the-boat-that-rocked

Please don't entertain for a moment the utterly mistaken idea that there is no drudgery in writing. There is a great deal of drudgery in even the most inspired, the most noble, the most distinguished writing. Read what the great ones have said about their jobs; how they never sit down to their work without a sigh of distress and never get up from it witout a sigh of relief. Do you imagine that your Muse is forever flamelike -- breathing the inspired word, the wonderful situation, the superb solution into your attentive ear? ... Believe me, my poor boy, if you wait for inspiration in our set-up, you'll wait for ever. ↗

— Ngaio Marsh

#inspiration #writing #death

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. ↗

— David Carson

#graphic-design #humor #prophecy #rock #rock-n-roll

we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#writing-philosophy #writing-process #dreams