"I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism."

-- Sharif Abdel Kouddous

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.”
“People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying.”
“Thought is born of failure.”

Source : Lancelot Law Whyte (1975). “The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion”, p.78, Transaction Publishers
“Many who are making cellphone images are advocates with a stake in the outcome of what they are depicting. In some ways this makes their work more honest and easier to read - they can also manipulate, although the work of professionals can be quite manipulative as well.”

Source : "Can Photojournalism Survive in the Instagram Era?". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2013.
“Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over.”
“I love you. Never forget that. Never forget...me.”
“Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.”

Source : Jerome Frank (2017). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.207, Routledge
“Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.”

Source : William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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