Think of yourself as a sophisticated machine. If you only put the best possible ingredients into that machine body, it will work flawlessly. Concentrate on this image and enjoy the knowledge that you are running at your optimum. It’s exciting. It will also inspire you to keep at it, daily.
“You know what’s the worst thing about somebody breaking up with you? It’s when you remember how little you thought about the people you broke up with and you realize that is how little they’re thinking of you. You know? You’d like to think you’re both in all this pain, but they’re just like ‘Hey, I’m glad you’re gone’.”
~ Jesse: “Before Sunrise”
[You’re exhibiting a] Pattern stemming from issues you haven’t dealt with.— Lil’ Sis on February 24, 2008
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.— Christopher Hampton
Run slowly, run daily, drink moderately and don’t eat like a pig.— Dr. Ernest van Aaken
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.— Marie Curie
(January 17, 2007) That’s pretty much true for grad students: the work doesn’t do itself.