"You know what comes next, of course. You know I'm writing this at my desk, on a Thursday, and day after tomorrow I'll put on bib overalls, the neighbors thinking what an affectation, and pull weeds for the composter, and dig a place for a late row of greens, most of them going to seed instead of in the pot, and tell myself what the hell, I just want to dig the dirt and watch the stuff grow, an educated fool at last."

-- James Autry

#Leadership Quotes #Weed Quotes #Writing Quotes

“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”

Source : James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster
“I'm very wary of trust, you see.”
“The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.”
“I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”
“Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space”
“Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.”
“We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.”
“I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.”

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