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• What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?

  Rosser Reeves

  Moving, Writing, Curves

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• Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

  Tony Benn

  Teacher, Real, Mistake

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• Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.

  Arthur Machen

  Running, Eye, Men

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1290, Delphi Classics

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• Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

  Brian Tracy

  Writing, Clear Goals, People

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• Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Country, Support, Administration

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• Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Shut Up

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men.

  John Stott

  Men, Speech, Scripture

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• But I hate the way our identity has changed. We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not to make mistakes, and we’d rely on our defense to keep us in the game and make big plays to put us in position to win. Kyle Orton might not be the flashiest quarterback, but the guy is a winner, and that formula worked for us. I hate to say it, but that’s the truth.

  Brian Urlacher

  Running, Hate, Mistake

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• When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again.

  J.J. Cale

  Guitar, Years, Play

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• I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their body, their mouth, their eyes, their words, their voice says all these unspeakable things that you really can't explain but that mean something anyway. People are completely transformed when they sing; people look like that when they sing or when they make love. But it's a weird thing—at the end of the night I feel strange, because I feel I've told everybody all my secrets.

  Jeff Buckley

  Mean, Eye, Night

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• Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

  Tim Ferriss

  Life, Motivational, Differences

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• I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in a precise manner. Distance and deflection were carefully judged before firing. This is not something that comes by accident; only by experience can a pilot overcome feelings of panic. A thousand missions could be flown and be of no use if the pilot has not exchanged fire with the enemy.

  John Trevor Godfrey

  Distance, Fire, Feelings

  John Trevor Godfrey (1958). “The look of eagles”

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• My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.

  Tiger Woods

  Mother, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Political, Violence

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• So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Doors, Water

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Flower, Cadavers, Eternity

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• Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.

  Vernor Vinge

  Technology, Understanding, World

  Vernor Vinge (2002). “The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Thinking, Gifted Writers, Romance

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• Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• I find that when you open on a group of people sitting down and talking, the scene sits down with them. The best antidote for that is an entrance. Begin the scene with someone entering, and somehow it’s more interesting.

  Howard Hawks

  Talking, People, Interesting

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• It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his journey sit down and invent a definite integral or two towards the increase of the common stock.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Journey, Two, Common

  James Joseph Sylvester (2008). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester”, p.214, American Mathematical Soc.

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• You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it be owners, GMs, coaches, players, trainers, all the way down. And that doesn't even account for all of the people that you encountered outside of the game that you met along this trip, too.

  Ron Francis

  Player, Nhl, Ice

  "In preparing for Hall induction, writing the speech at top of to-do list". www.nhl.com. November 7, 2007.

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• The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.

  Jean-Marc Ayrault

  Running, Wall, Broken

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• Maybe...in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe...maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it's a little like life. I mean it's powerful going down and that doesn't even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.

  Bette Greene

  Powerful, Coffee, Mean

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• The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Fall, Character, Air

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.96, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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