Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
Interpretation
Discipline in work leads to greater creativity and freedom.
Jeanette Winterson highlights the importance of discipline in the workplace. She argues that without maintaining a disciplined approach to our work, we ultimately restrict our own creative potential. By turning up and committing to our tasks, we create an environment where creativity can flourish, indicating that structure and freedom can coexist rather than being oppositional forces.
In practice
This quote can be used during a team meeting to emphasize the importance of commitment.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
This is my last year at Oregon, and it means a lot to me. The people have been great to me up there, so if I have to run three races to win the Pac-8 title, I'll do it. Oh, sure, I'll probably be tired, but the people shouting will carry me across the finish line.
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.
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