Steve Lopez Quotes

• Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying.

  Steve Lopez

  Night, Nurse, Sick

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• A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.

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  Friendship, Challenges, Inspire

  Steve Lopez (2008). “The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music”, Putnam Adult

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• Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.

  Steve Lopez

  Dream, Storm, Unexpected

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• Negativity is never an option

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  Inspirational, Life, Negativity

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• Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

  Steve Lopez

  Reading, Writing, Missions

  Steve Lopez (2010). “The Soloist”, p.66, Random House

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• Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

  Steve Lopez

  Love Is, Mental Illness, Laundry

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• It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

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  Mirrors, Interesting, World

  Steve Lopez (2008). “The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music”, Putnam Adult

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• It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

  Steve Lopez

  Emotional, Causes, Chemistry

  Steve Lopez (2008). “The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music”, Putnam Adult

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• Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even more moves, were repeated endlessly. True novelties were becoming scarcer, and sometimes these 'opening' novelties didn't appear until well into the middlegame. (A master-level friend once proudly showed me a novelty he'd discovered at move twenty-seven of a very well-trodden chess opening, and it's said that even as far back as the 1950's Mikhail Botvinnik had some openings memorised past the thirtieth move).

  Steve Lopez

  Moving, Past, Player

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