"I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark."

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Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

Amy Hempel

#Giving Quotes #Mind Quotes #Three Quotes

“Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.”
“I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'”
“I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.”
“One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.”
“There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in which you can play for a win. But at the same time, don't forget that there is no such thing as a won position in which it is impossible to lose.”
“Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.”
“Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess”
“In the desert, the only god is a well.”

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