Steve Gilliland Quotes

#1. Where a boy runs he never forgets.

Bernard Malamud

#2. This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.

Norman Vincent Peale

#4. The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because the writer is not thinking overtly about making art.

Philip Gerard

#5. There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.

Aaron Koblin

#6. You know you have arrived as a leader when people follow you because they want to, not because they have to.

Steve Gilliland

#7. Were all stars to disappear and die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
- W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One

W. H. Auden

#8. One who falls a hundred times,
and rises, is a warrior.
One who falls a thousand times,
and rises, is a champion.
One who falls countless times,
and rises, is a conqueror.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. We are who we make ourselves to be

Jeaniene Frost

#10. I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

Ben Stein

#11. In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs.

Julia Gillard

#12. Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

Luc De Clapiers