"You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months."

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Source : "This Is The Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. November 25, 2013.

Vaclav Smil

#Morning Quotes #Book Quotes #Eight Quotes

“Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.”
“I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.”
“It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.”
“It's all about mechanics; all the weight-lifting in the world can't help you if you're not running correctly.”
“Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.”

Source : "Together we can beat the gangs" by Iain Duncan Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2011.
“I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.”
“Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.”
“I just want to play for a team that wants me.”

Source : "Wiggins addresses trade rumors", www.espn.com. August 3, 2014.

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