"Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up."

-- Jim Crace

#Editors Quotes #Trying Quotes #Curls Quotes

“One is inspired only in solitude.”
“I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.”
“I like the fact that there is challenge.”
“Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.”
“You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.”
“Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all of whom are making pots. And these people had families, children, and they had to have a wage that would allow them to raise their family and they had to get a paycheck every Friday afternoon. So if we had not made pots that would sell it, would not have been possible for these people to be employed.”
“Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!”
“No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.”

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