“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

“Life is full of decisions and judgments and guesses, and it gets to the point where you're so accustomed to making them you keep right on making them even when you don't strictly need to. You get into a what if thing, and you start speculating about what you would do if some problem was yours instead of somebody else's. It gets to be a habit. It was a habit Jack Reacher had in spades.”

Lee Child book Running Blind

“You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Here I Am

“You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.”

Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model

“I wouldn't know what to do with [colour]. Colour to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a colour, the more dreamy it gets… Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

“This is what happens when you get old. You start thinking. Worse, you start telling everybody what you think.”

Glen Cook book Soldiers Live

“You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.”

Selena (1971–1995) Mexican-American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

“I try and keep an ear out and keep an open mind and enjoy something where I don't know what the hell is going on inside of it. That's what I really get out of it. Because to me it's new. That's what I get out of it. That joyful feeling of you don't know what's going to happen next.”

Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter

“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”

Gwen Bristow (1903–1980) American author and journalist

“Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor