Andrew Motion Quotes

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Andrew Motion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 26, 1952

Topics

YouNowPlacesInsideSeeOut

We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.

Jimmy John Liautaud

TimeWantSingleSandwichSystem

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

Andrew Clements

FamousCelebrityMadeMuch

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

Meg Rosoff

MorningLateUpFieldsHorsesEvery

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

John P. Kotter

ChangeLeadMakeIncrementalTrained

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

Steve Irwin

BelieveCompromiseTreesDownEat

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Steve Jobs

LifeFutureTrustMeLooking Forward

Personally, I never had any negative encounters with the law growing up.

Ron Stallworth

LawGrowing UpNegativeGrowingUp

I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.

Janine di Giovanni

DoctorAfricaNeverOutWorkingSet

'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.

Jonah Hill

LifeMeIdeasCoolThoughtReal

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Dmitri Mendeleev

NatureLawRecognitionAlwaysBeen

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

Derek Cianfrance

YouWantMoviesTrySideAnything

Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

Ariel Garten

MediaLosePlaceSightChannels

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