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John Irving Quotes

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

John Irving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1942

Topics

Father Teacher History Child Small

Dog-fooding is using your own products so that you understand from inside out what it is you're providing the customers. It's another way to gain insights and to gain intelligence. You use it yourself; you eat your own dog food. Every time we do that, we discover something that we can improve.

Joe Gebbia

Dog Time Food Intelligence Yourself

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

Andrew Yang

Company Starting Things Successful

If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

Matt Kemp

Life Work Learning Home Car Me

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

John Tiffany

Mind Comedy You Low Where Get

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

Roger Moore

Myself Never Role Like Some Really

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Strong True Praise False Only Even

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses.

Jason Behr

Coffee Weaknesses Cigarettes

I didn't make the Olympics, but I beat a lot of the guys that went to the Olympics, so I felt I was at that level even though I didn't make it.

Joseph Parker

Beat Level Make Even Though Guys

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Dorothy Day

Heart Challenge Day Start Revolution

Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.

David Whyte

Live Honesty Blame Story End Know

When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.

Pete Docter

School Middle School Middle Cartoons

When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.

Seal

Life Wife Better Whole Changed Dime