"It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close"

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Jesse Owens

#Running Quotes #Character Quotes #Differences Quotes

“There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write a song, making tiny tweaks, reading it out loud, shifting things to make it sound a certain way... Sometimes it feels like digging out of a hole, but sometimes it feels like flying. When it's working and the rhythm's there, it does feel like magic to me.”
“Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.”
“I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.”

Source : Letter to François-Auguste-René Rodin, c. 1905.
“I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding.”
“If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.”
“We have to earn our Wings every day.”

Source : Frank Borman, Robert J. Serling (1988). “Countdown: an autobiography”, Silver Arrow
“Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted”
“People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.”

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