- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morning Quotes
How you start the morning sets the tone.
A few of these are about quiet, private morning routines — writing early, reading the news — while another compares real friendship to the effort behind a good cup of coffee. For a spiritual start to the day, see our Prayers.
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- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the biggest thing is that success is not measured by whether or not you're on 'CBS This Morning' or whether or not you make the local news station.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020