#tin

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right. ↗

— Dana Plato

#attention #bad #dictate #else #experience

Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat. ↗

— Katrina Monroe

#writing-life #life

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. ↗

— Jane Porter

#candles #depriving #flame #imparting #knowledge

This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-fly-apart-disintegrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#explode #inspirational #writing #art

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect. ↗

— Michael Porter

#companies #effect #operating #ripple #tremendous

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process. ↗

— Bruce Perens

#filtered #marketing #open #open source #paradigm

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. ↗

— Richard Perle

#does #example #few #for example #france

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#almost #complete #could #entire #entire universe

I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought. ↗

— Harold Perrineau

#find #fun #had #i #interesting

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#love #paris #writing #beauty