"I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself."

-- Jim Harrison

#Running Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.”
“Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.”
“The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.”
“For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.”
“It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.”
“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
“I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.”
“Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.”

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