Not to be peevish or morose, or suspicious. (irritable, malhumorado, desconfiado).
Not to tell the same story over and over to the same People.
Not to be covetous. (avaricioso)
Not to talk much, nor of my self.
Not to be positive or opiniative.*
Susan Sontag
Starting tomorrow — if not today:
I will get up every morning no later than eight. (Can break this rule once a week.)
I will have lunch only with Roger [Straus]. (‘No, I don’t go out for lunch.’ Can break this rule once every two weeks.)
I will write in the Notebook every day. (Model: Lichtenberg’s Waste Books.)
I will tell people not to call in the morning, or not answer the phone.
I will try to confine my reading to the evening. (I read too much — as an escape from writing.)
I will answer letters once a week. (Friday? — I have to go to the hospital anyway.)
Marilyn Monroe
work whenever possible — on class assignments — andalways keep working on the acting exercises
keep looking around me — only much more so —observing — but not only myself but others and everything — take things (it) for what they (it’s) are worth
take care of my instrument — personally & bodily (exercise)
try to enjoy myself when I can — I’ll be miserable enough as it is.
Woody Guthrie
Work more and better
Work by a schedule
Write a song a day
Wear clean clothes — look good
Read lots good books
Listen to radio a lot
Learn people better
Keep rancho clean
Dont get lonesome (solitario)
Stay glad
Keep hoping machine running
Dream good
Play and sing good
Dance better
Love everybody
Make up your mind
Wake up and fight
From: The Brain Pickings-Famous Resolutions Lists
