"I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic."

-- Daniel Alarcon

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from”
“Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.”
“State is the nation socially organized.”

Source : "Speeches" by António de Oliveira Salazar, Coimbra Editora, Volume 4, (p. 181), 1935.
“Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.”
“BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.”
“It's so easy to say "evil Nazi monsters," but as soon as we do that, we take away the fact that it was individuals committing individual acts of murder. They had children, and what does that do? As soon as you generalize, they become monsters. It doesn't allow you to understand it in any kind of sophisticated way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.”
“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”

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