"Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel."

-- Thomas Steinbeck

#Writing Quotes #Novel Quotes #Cant Quotes

“You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose”
“Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim to becoming a project, from being a "skunk works" effort to becoming an official, mainstream effort, from being an unfounded program to a funded process, and so on.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.”

Source : "Japan’s New Leader Takes On Old Order to Jolt Economy" by Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 2013.
“Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.”
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
“No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.”
“I never though much about race.”
“Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.”

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