Justine Avery > Justine's Quotes

“Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.”
― David Farland, Drawing on the Power of Resonance in Writing

“I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.”
― David Farland

“If we don’t feel like we have leisure, Robinson maintains, it’s entirely our own fault. “Time is a smokescreen. And it’s a convenient excuse,” he’d told me. “Saying, ‘I don’t have time,’ is just another way of saying, ‘I’d rather do something else.”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“It isn’t the person with the best idea who wins; it’s the person who has the greatest understanding of what really matters to people.”
― Bernadette Jiwa, Difference: The one-page method for reimagining your business and reinventing your marketing

“what differentiates a good anything from a great anything you care to think about (business, movie, hotel, product, blog, book, packaging, design, app, talk, school, song, art… keep going) is that the great stuff, the things we give a damn about, have the heart left in them.”
― Bernadette Jiwa, Difference: The one-page method for reimagining your business and reinventing your marketing

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. —JAMES OPPENHEIM”
― Todd Henry, Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day

“As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“The United States is the only advanced economy that doesn’t guarantee workers paid time off. Nearly one-quarter of all American workers get no paid vacation,”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“just do it. Make time for leisure when the spirit seizes you, no matter what you happen to be wearing.”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“Eight in ten Britons report being too busy to eat dessert, even though four in ten say dessert is better than sex.”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“research has found that, with the flick of the TV’s remote, our thinking brains shut off. Within thirty seconds, we lose our sense of self, and our alpha waves become no more active than if we were staring at a blank wall.”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“the stuff of life never ends. That is life. You will never clear your plate so you can finally allow yourself to get to the good stuff. So you have to decide. What do you want to accomplish in this life?”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don’t replay the bad, scary movie.”
― Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“Too many of us leave our lives—and, in fact, our souls—behind when we go to work.”
― Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“A study funded by the National Institutes of Health showed a 23 percent decrease in mortality in people who meditated versus those who did not,”
― Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“In December 2013, a tourist in Melbourne fell off a pier and plunged into the sea while checking Facebook on her phone. She still had it in her hand when she was rescued.”
― Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. Richard Carlson”
― Paul Huljich, Stress Pandemic: The Lifestyle Solution

“we are much more interested in developing self-expression than we are in developing selves that are worth expressing. Personal preference has triumphed over the pursuit of excellence.”
― Matthew Kelly, Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion

“Work-life balance, work-life effectiveness, personal and professional satisfaction—or whatever you choose to call it—is not an entitlement or benefit. Your company cannot give it to you. You have to create it for yourself. You are personally responsible for living the best life you can.”
― Matthew Kelly, Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion

“Satisfaction comes from emptying ourselves into things.”
― Matthew Kelly, Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion

“part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.”
― Matthew Kelly, Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion

“We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do in a week.”
― Matthew Kelly, Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion

“Instinct is the elusive magic that happens when art collides with hard-won craft.”
― Larry Brooks, Story Engineering

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. — Buddha”
― Cathleen McCandless, Feng Shui that Makes Sense: Easy Ways to Create a Home that FEELS as Good as it Looks

“When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For every apostrophe omitted from an it’s, there is an extra one put into an its.” Thus the number of apostrophes in circulation remains constant, even if this means we have double the reason to go and bang our heads against a wall.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“there used to be a shopkeeper in Bristol who deliberately stuck ungrammatical signs in his window as a ruse to draw people into the shop; they would come in to complain, and he would then talk them into buying something.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation