Jim Moore famous quotes

In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing.
-- Jim Moore

#Losing #Explaining

Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again!
-- Jim Moore

#Sea #Sailing #Gone

There's a big difference between seeing an opportunity and seizing an opportunity
-- Jim Moore

#Opportunity #Differences #Bigs

For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I don't see them as sequences, but rather as companion pieces, the way that diptychs often work. The idea comes originally from the paintings of Michael Venezia who places blocks of painted wood next to each other. Proximity is a godsend. The quote is from Wallace Stevens.
-- Jim Moore

#Block #Writing #Years

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Due to success I started losing friends.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.