"Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time."

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Shelby Foote

#Hard Work Quotes #Writing Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.”
“There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery”
“I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot.”
“Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.”
“Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work.”
“Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.”
“Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.”

Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.45, Da Capo Press
“Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.”

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