"Either write something worth reading or do..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
More by Benjamin Franklin
“The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.”
“There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.”
“A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.”
More on Purpose
“You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.”
“I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.”
“Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.”
More on Creativity
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
“Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.”
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”