"I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible."

-- A. J. Jacobs

#Moving Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Research Quotes

“Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.”
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
“The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.”
“There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating, sleeping - and photography is part of it. And I don't say this because I'm being romantic. I say this because that's just the way it happens to be.”
“I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.”

Source : "Questions and Answers With Creed Bratton". Interview with Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. February 15, 2013.
“You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.”
“It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.”
“I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.”

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