Archive for the 'Sideways Sayings' Category
Sideways Saying # 4 – There Aren’t Enough Hours in the Day
2 Comments Published by Andrew Leigh May 1st, 2008 in Musings & Rants, Sideways Sayings.Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity
Oh… I have a strange relationship with this one. I don’t believe it and I do believe it. Potentially I have way too many things to do in each twenty four hours but these days I’m much, much better at being satisfied with what I have done. [...]
Sideways Saying #3 – If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes
1 Comment Published by Andrew Leigh November 15th, 2007 in Being an artist, Happiness, Just Doing It, Sideways Sayings.Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity
Don’t you just love inner dialogues:
Oh, I really do love this saying.
What? How can you say that? This saying is so far wrong it’s coming round the other side and taking a crafty peak at being right.
It is right! It’s one of the great personal development aphorisms. [...]
Sideways Sayings # 2: Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
6 Comments Published by Andrew Leigh September 13th, 2007 in Sideways Sayings.Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity
# 2 of the series in which I take a swipe at daft sayings
Don’t even get me started on this one.
This saying is so wrong I scarcely know where to begin. Now I know that sayings are often metaphors, but here even the metaphor doesn’t work. I [...]
Sideways Sayings: A Thousand Miles to Eat an Elephant
Closed Published by Andrew Leigh August 1st, 2007 in Planning, Sideways Sayings.Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
I love these two sayings, but wow! they’re overused these days. It’s become accepted wisdom that if you want to achieve a long term goal, or even [...]
Coming Very Soon – Sideways Sayings
Closed Published by Andrew Leigh July 31st, 2007 in Sideways Sayings.So what�s this all about then, I hear you ask. Well you could be lucky enough to be in right of the start of this soon to be legendary series of whimsical deconstructions of much loved, much hated, overused, misunderstood or just plain stupid quotations and sayings.
