"I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail."

-- James A. Michener

#Writing Quotes #Eight Quotes #Talking Quotes

“She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes”
“Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.”
“I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.”
“If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.”
“The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.”

Source : Duff McDonald (2009). “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase”, p.235, Simon and Schuster
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”
“Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.”
“Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have seen life as it really is-ravishingly, ecstatically, madly beautiful, and filled to overflowing with a wild joy, and a value unspeakable.”

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