"It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut."

-- John L. Phillips

#Careers Quotes #Goal Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.”
“Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.”
“Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create”
“I die for speaking the language of the angels.”
“Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.”
“If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.”
“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do”

Source : William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.9, Harper Collins
“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”

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