Yoshimatsu Japanese Quotes

#1. Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#2. The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic
the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. To realize in an instant that you aren't going to have the life you'd hoped for, but not waste a moment complaining, instead acting instantly to save what good you can? That's more guts than I'd have had.

Brent Weeks

#4. Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.

David Oyelowo

#5. Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

Sheena Iyengar

#6. No one player is as good as the sum of a team

Alfredo Di Stefano

#7. There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. You can exercise your authority as a
believer because you are seated with Jesus in the heavenly places.

Pedro Okoro

#9. It's heartbreaking when you hear a kid buying a ticket for ... I don't know, whatever movie you're up against. And you see them sneaking into your film. It's just heartbreaking. But in the spirit of full disclosure, that is what I did as an 11-year-old sneaking into 'Stripes.'

Todd Phillips

#10. The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

Emile M. Cioran

#11. I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

Jean Kerr