You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.
Russia does continue to battle us in the U. N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. And I'm certainly not going to say to him, I'll give you more flexibility after the election. After the election, he'll get more backbone.
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Build a little community of those you love and who love you