Creative Mouthpiece Quote: Anton Chekov and Madeleine L’Engle

by stugray on November 30, 2009

Writing with an Ink Pen

You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures, Don’t let that concern you. It’s Your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.

- Anton Chekov quoted in Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L’Engle (amazon link)

photo by athena

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Ralph Hass December 4, 2009 at 4:13 pm

That’s a keeper Stu!

Here is the one on my Encouragement for Dads desk calendar today: I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food. ~ Robert Orben

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