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# Put the puppy back on the paper
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2005517put-the-puppy-back-on-the-paper-html/
- Published: 2005-05-17T15:40:31.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:34:45.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Quotes, #DashHouseCom, #wp

[From 43 Folders:](http://www.43folders.com/2005/04/index.html?ref=dashhouse.com), a quote from [*Bird by Bird*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385480016/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com):

> Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. So I keep trying gently to bring my mind back to what is really there to be seen, maybe to be seen and noted with a kind of reverence.

I’ve seen a fair bit of drop-kicking lately – people doing it to themselves and others. It really doesn’t accomplish as much as we think. I love this quote.