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Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.


Robert Hass

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JULIE MORGENSTERN If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
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LAURA STETSON You dreaded asking him about his vacation because he would talk to you for an hour about what he did...
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PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA The first half-hour and the last hour of the day are simply down times. If we can cut out an hour fr...
MARSHA KOET How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that...
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THOMAS MCGUANE If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
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CRAIG GROESCHEL You'll go out of your way, but it'll probably save you an hour and a half.
GEORGE BILLOWS You know, Take Your Demon To Work Day.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We could do it (set up shelter) in half an hour, if necessary.
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ANNA PUMP I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than ha...
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GINA BARRECA I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK I would have preferred to have finished this afternoon and have half an hour extra in bed in the mor...
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DAVID BENIOFF You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.
HAL ROACH May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you are dead.
IRISH PROVERB When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your ti...
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AKIROQ BROST The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work an...
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KEVIN JAMES The lake will continue receding during the day, about half an inch an hour. As it recedes, this will...
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ERIQ LA SALLE What you see can be nauseating, but you kind of get used to it. Without complications, it takes an h...
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ROBIN S. SHARMA You can do your work in your PJs if you want to.
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KRIS HUEN If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
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ROBERT FROST Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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ROBERT FROST Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
ROBERT DELAUNAY It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, an...
ROBERT LORENZ I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.
ROBERT FULGHUM Clean up your own mess.
ROBERT FULGHUM On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential...
ROBERT FULGHUM I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
ROBERT FULGHUM I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
ROBERT FULGHUM To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for...
ROBERT FULGHUM 'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends...
ROBERT FULGHUM And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold h...
ROBERT FULGHUM The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
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