DoD News Briefing May 01, 2002 http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=3424
2000s
“Running down a dream…
working on a mystery…
going wherever it leads…”
As quoted in "Moon So-ri interview: “People usually run in sneakers, whereas I had to run in high heels”" in Eastern Kicks (20 May 2018) https://www.easternkicks.com/features/moon-so-ri-interview-people-usually-run-in-sneakers-whereas-i-had-to-run-in-high-heels
“Fact is, you work too hard…the universe won’t run down if you don’t wind it.”
Source: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 12, “Concerning Pidgie-Widgie” (p. 185)
“And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.”
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Espérance est violente
"Le Pont Mirabeau" (Mirabeau Bridge), line 13; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 193.
Alcools (1912)
Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)
Variant: The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Source: The Bean Trees
“Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow.”
Statement of 1902 quoted in The William James Reader (2007), Vol I, p. 264
1900s
“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work.”
Orange County Register, July 9, 1999
Context: You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
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2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
