Nick Newell Quotes

#1. A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

Charles Olson

#2. Imagination and action are the mothers of all creation.

Debasish Mridha

#3. He looked at the paper before him. He wondered why ineptitude should exist and have its say.

Ayn Rand

#4. Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

Nick Newell

#5. By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

Gautama Buddha

#6. One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

Wallace Stegner

#7. There should be a word for this feeling: spectacularity or burstsomeness.

Emery Lord

#8. Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing
but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.

Saul Alinsky

#9. Winning is very important to me, but at the end of the day, even if I lose, as long as I know I gave it everything I had, there's no shame in that.

Nick Newell

#10. How I snuffed that Tartar air!
how I spurned that turnpike earth!
that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.

Herman Melville

#11. Sometimes you start a little further back from the starting line. And you're going to have to work a little bit harder, and push it faster to get to the finish. I'm willing to put in the work, to compensate for other things, to get ahead, to get to where I want to be.

Nick Newell

#12. My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

August Wilson

#13. Be sure to get her home before midnight. She turns into a rabid coyote when the clock strikes twelve." Sawyer moved on down the bar to fill a pitcher with beer.
"That true, darlin'?" Tyrell asked.
"Got to take the bad with the good," Jill answered.

Carolyn Brown

#14. We all have demons. True fighters chain them to the pit of their dark souls.

L.J. Shen