Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Inspiration to condemnation. Insight from authors, actors, fictional characters, and etcetera.
First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit is persistence in practice.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
A.F. Bradley, New York – steamboattimes.com
A portrait of the American writer Mark Twain taken by A. F. Bradley in New York, 1907.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Source: Scan of photograph by Arthur Strong, 1947 Specific source for the zealot: https://timfall.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/c-s-lewis3.jpg
Prose of its very nature is longer than verse, and the virtues peculiar to it manifest themselves gradually. If the cardinal virtue of poetry is love, the cardinal virtue of prose is justice; and, whereas love makes you act and speak on the spur of the moment, justice needs inquiry, patience, and a control even of the noblest passions… By justice here I do not mean justice only to particular people or ideas, but a habit of justice in all the processes of thought, a style tranquillized and a form moulded by that habit. The master of prose is not cold, but he will not let any word or image inflame him with a heat irrelevant to his purpose. Unhasting, unresting, he pursues it, subduing all the riches of his mind to it, rejecting all beauties that are not germane to it; making his own beauty out of the very accomplishment of it, out of the whole work and its proportions, so that you must read to the end before you know that it is beautiful. But he has his reward, for he is trusted and convinces, as those who are at the mercy of their own eloquence do not; and he gives a pleasure all the greater for being hardly noticed. In the best prose, whether narrative or argument, we are so led as we read, that we do not stop to applaud the writer, nor do we stop to question him.
The Oxford Book of Prose – Entry 581