"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."

-- Richard Russo

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Views Quotes

“I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose.”

Source : "George Steinbrenner, Who Built Yankees Into Powerhouse, Dies at 80" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 2010.
“Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.”
“When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.”

Source : Thomas Eakins, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). “Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York”
“Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.”
“Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.”
“I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer Hundley, www.askmen.com.
“The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.”
“I believe investors should invest for the long run, so I don't buy and sell. I usually maintain the classic index of global equities, diversified U.S. and global and emerging markets, and when the risk is larger, I diminish the amount in global equities and put more into liquid assets - but very irregularly.”

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