Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.
Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
I try very hard to write in a very orderly and continual disciplined manner.
All my work is much more peaceful than I am.
I like things to be orderly.
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.