"This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are."

-- John Green

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Where You Are Quotes

“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
“Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.”
“In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive.”
“You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.”

Source : "I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.
“After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.”
“There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation. That interpretation has come at the expense of the one that says when God, in the story of Noah, intervened to save human life against the flood, against the acts of nature, He did not stop with human beings. He made sure that every kind of animal was represented twice on that ark.”
“I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.”
“Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.146, Open Road Media

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