recovering economist
1. Head down. Create.
2. Love your work, but don’t forsake the rest.
3. Dear time: Please don’t run.
5. “I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”
–Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird
1. In terms of writing, The War Of Art, By: Steven Pressfield, has become a “quake book” for me. If you want to write, go and read it.
2. Reading might lead to writing, and the opposite.
3. The older I get, the more experience I have, the more preparing for a job interview is a waste of time. You don’t think about it all. You’re just honest.
4. Cowboys were more lonely than you can imagine.
5. “There is no greater mistake than when a young man believes he will succeed with borrowed money. Why? Because every man’s experience coincides with that of Mr. Astor, who said, “it was more difficult for him to accumulate his first thousand dollars, than all the succeeding millions that made up his colossal fortune.” Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience. Give a boy twenty thousand dollars and put him in business, and the chances are that he will lose every dollar of it before he is a year older.”
–P.T. Barnum, The Art Of Money Getting