"When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Trying Quotes #Underdog Quotes

“I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.”
“It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.”
“It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.”
“I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!”
“I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“That's where the biggest shift has taken place. We have been propelled forward into our awakening because of the dimensional shifts on the planet.”
“Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?”
“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK

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