"I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually."

-- Ben Fountain

#Writing Quotes #College Quotes #Two Quotes

“For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.”
“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers”

Source : John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.”
“Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.”
“Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 6 "Bayes Rule", p. 91), 2006.
“Well, my dad was into music, but he wasn't into me being into music. In my house when I was a kid, when I was real young, my dad wanted us all to play sports, and we were jock-like. We had a lot of money. And my brother was sort of the light of our family, and he was a good athlete. And I wasn't a very good athlete, but I tried to be. And then when I was 15 my dad went bankrupt, and we moved to Houston. And I went with him, but then I went back to Portland.”
“Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information,”

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