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John Sandford Quotes

I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 23, 1944

Topics

Time Together People Looking Seeing

Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.

Good Mistakes Year Never First Size

There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern.

Maurizio Cattelan

Focus Help Bring Being Issues Major

I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they'd be if I'd have done them myself.

Myself Moment Day Painting Deep

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.

People World Target Civilization Now

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Courage Man Voice Strong Without

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Fitness Start Build Relationships

It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.

Mother Me Interesting Way She Her

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

Day Me Start Think Anxiety Down

I always try and put out posts on social media about feeling good inside, and there's so much pressure for people to look a certain way and have a certain hairstyle or a certain lipstick.

Good Social Media People Pressure

Character is a journey, not a destination.

William J. Clinton

Character Journey Destination

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

Community Art Commitment Peace

I'm never a flashy type of person.

Person Never Type Flashy

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