Only A Very Gifted Mind

The People Who Live In The Past Must Yield To The People Who Live In The Future. Otherwise The World Would Begin To Turn The Other Way Round.

The Most Important Preliminary To The Task Of Arranging One's Life So That One May Live Fully And Comfortably Within One's Daily Budget Of 24 Hours Is The Calm Realization Of The Extreme Difficulty Of The Task, Of The Sacrifices And The Endless Effort Which It Demands.

The Gain In Self-confidence Of Having Accomplished A Tiresome Labour Is Immense.

Every Scene, Even The Commonest, Is Wonderful, If Only One Can Detach Oneself, Casting Off All Memory Of Use And Custom, And Behold It (as It Were) For The First Time; In Its Right, Authentic Colors; Without Making Comparisons. Cherish And Burnish This Faculty Of Seeing Crudely, Simply, Artlessly, Ignorantly; Of Seeing Like A Baby Or A Lunatic, Who Lives Each Moment By Itself And Tarnishes By The Present No Remembrance Of The Past.

The Only Way To Write A Great Book Is To Write It With The Eyes Of A Child Who Sees Things For The First Time.