"My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts."

-- John Newbery

#First Impression Quotes #Technique Quotes #Records Quotes

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”
“If a thing goes without saying -- let it.”

Source : Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speech openers and closers”
“Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.”
“As a competitor and an athlete, you have to believe in yourself.Â And you have to believe in the people who believe in you.”
“I'm a big believer in the Christian faith. I don't push it on anyone, though.”
“When I stopped wanting my New Year's Eve to be perfect, to bring in the New Year right, is when it started working out right. When I was young, I was always looking for the best party to be at, to ring in the New Year, and I always ended up in the car going, "Happy New Year."”
“I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.”

Source : David Millar, Jeremy Whittle (2012). “Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.”

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