Monday, December 17, 2007

Gustave Flaubert

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. -Gustave Flaubert, novelist (1821-1880)

This may be good advice if your work is writing novels, but I'm not sure how widely it can apply. In most lines of work orderliness and regularity are assets, although breakthrough innovation is also highly prized, and it requires a degree of passion and originality. A combination of the two characteristics is ideal, and also uncommon, but I think steadiness must be the basis of character.


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