"I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves."

-- Edward Albee

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.”
“You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?”
“Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be ridiculously persistent. Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Working at a big company sucks--avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning. Be generous with your time and money--it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love--and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.”
“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”
“The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions”
“You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.”
“I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well”
“You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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