Quotes on knuckling down
What writers & others say
Image by Bethany Legg
“I’d like to remind you again, Winfield, that daydreaming is only a part of the creative process.”
— Boss to employee in a New Yorker cartoon by Charles Barsotti
“Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of the chair.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winning author
“The cold, gray dawn of the morning after.”
— James Webb Young, a pre-Mad Men-era ad executive, in A Technique for Producing Ideas
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