Homework... The writing of a paper that is due...

Arrrgghhh... I am having the hardest time wrapping my brain around this less than coherent paper I am attempting to write.



I was on a roll.



Day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day I worked on my rough draft.



And now I am having the hardest time picking back up where I left off.



So incredibly far from being finished.



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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.  ~William James


Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.  ~Don Marquis


Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.  ~Author Unknown


Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.  ~Charles Kingsley


The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.  ~Author Unknown


If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done.  ~Author Unknown


Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.  ~Robert Benchley


There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.  ~Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister


It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.  ~Earl of Chesterfield


The two rules of procrastination:  1) Do it today.  2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.  ~Author Unknown


One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.  ~Vincent T. Foss


You may delay, but time will not.  ~Benjamin Franklin


Someday is not a day of the week.  ~Author Unknown


To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.  ~Eva Young


Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.  ~C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958


Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.  ~Victor Kiam


If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.  ~Olin Miller


What may be done at any time will be done at no time.  ~Scottish Proverb


There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.  ~Joe Ryan


Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.  ~Gerald Vaughan


The best way to get something done is to begin.  ~Author Unknown


You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.  ~Author Unknown


I do my work at the same time each day - the last minute.  ~Author Unknown


Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.  ~Spanish Proverb


The time to begin most things is ten years ago.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Putting off an easy thing makes it hard.  Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.  ~George Claude Lorimer


Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.  ~Edward Young


Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.  ~Mark Twain


Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.  ~Jimmy Lyons


A year from now you may wish you had started today.  ~Karen Lamb


Procrastination is like masturbation.  At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself.  ~Author unknown, possibly from Monty Python?


One of these days is none of these days.  ~Attributed to both Henri Tubach and H.G. Bohn


Procrastination is the thief of time.  ~Edward Young

Xenophobia

I learned a new word today.

It means... a dislike and/or fear of that which is unknown or different from oneself. It comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning "stranger," "foreigner" and φόβος (phobos), meaning "fear." The term is typically used to describe a fear or dislike of foreigners or of people significantly different from oneself, usually in the context of visibly differentiated minorities.

This is straight from the good ole Wikipedia.

A lot easier...

“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.” - Tom Gates

Doubts...

“When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.” - Orison Swett Marden

Goals, needs, and motives.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. - Thomas Mann

Pele - Goddess of Fire

Snapped Noose.

I love the comment...

I love the comment, “You must love designing for a living.” At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears. — Andrew Lewis

Better known as... (you place name here)

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.” - Chuck Palahniuk

Design Process

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.
— Jeff Smith

Energy

"Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries." -- Corita Kent

Meditation

“We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.” - Alan Watts

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld

Who are you going to believe?

"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" - Groucho Marx

Dreams

“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams”

Risks

“The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take”

Eyes

“Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.”

True Friends...

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” - Elisabeth Foley

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” - Oprah Winfrey

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” - William James

Fireworks

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.  - Maria Callas  

Truth

“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves” - Abraham J. Heschel

Fire

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. - JOAN CRAWFORD 

I will not die an unlived life

I will not die an unlived life,

I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire,
I choose to inhabit my days,
To allow my living to open me,
To make me more accesssible,
To loosen my heart until it becomes a wing,
A torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
To live so that what comes to me, as seed,
Goes to the next as blossom,
Then goes on to bear fruit.
Dawna Markova.

Mother Teresa

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Mother Teresa

Have you ever been in love?

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love”.
- Neil Gaiman

Insanity

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

Lost hope. Lost faith. Lost.

You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true. Meredith Grey

Today

One day, a scorpion looked around and decided that he wanted a change. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river. The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. "Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?" But knowing all about scorpians, the frog said, "If I let you on my back, you will sting me and kill me!" The scorpian argued, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!" Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. "Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN sting me & kill me?" said the frog. "Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!" So the frog agreed to take the scorpian across the river. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws sticking into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current. Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs. "You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?" The scorpion shrugged, "I could not help myself. I'm a scorpian, it is my nature." Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river. Attributed to Aesop

Do good.

“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Doing the right thing is not easy.

It can hurt. It can make you cry. It can take all words from your mouth.

Doing the wrong thing may feel good, but do not be fooled. That feeling will not last. And it may be the last thing you ever do. One bad deed, just one, can wipe out a life of good.