Friday On The Commons - 01-06-06

We do not write to be understood; We write in order to understand.

- C. Day-Lewis

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

- Cesare Pavese

We should all be concerned about the future because we will all have to spend the rest of our lives there.

- Charles F. Kettering

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

...The writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

- W. Somerset Maugham from The Moon and Sixpence

I don't have a career, I have a life.

- Edward Abbey

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar.

- Robert Brault

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

- Peter Drucker

The present is a point that - just passed.

- David Russell

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

- Desiderius Erasmus