"In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them."

-- Victoria Chang

#Thinking Quotes #Impact Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.”
“Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.”
“Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men”
“It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.”
“Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.”
“I cant begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.”
“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.”
“We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.”

Source : "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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