Stewart Stern Quotes

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

Stewart Stern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1922 - February 2, 2015

Topics

MoneyChildhoodPeopleMeWriting

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

Jhumpa Lahiri

ResponsibilityPortraitTruePaint

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

John Mortimer

TragedyMinuteThousandPlayedFarce

The key to a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms is not an exhaustive survey of every conceivable data structure and its subforms, with memorization of each's Big-O value and amortized cost.

Robert Love

ValueFoundationKeyDataStructure

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

Robert Higgs

GrowthMoneyGovernmentValuePeople

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Matthias Schoenaerts

TimeHumanBeing HumanSameThings

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

Stan Van Gundy

FreedomPeopleSpeechSeekIssues

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

Michelle Bachelet

NatureLeadershipLosingExercise

Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy.

Mohamed ElBaradei

AngryAmericanCitizenPolicyMiddle

To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

WorkPatriotismWork HardAmerica

I didn't want to be one of those ex-pros, aye hanging around. I think that's wrong.

Drew Busby

ThinkWrongWantHangingI Think

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.

Bob Graham

TimeDisciplineDayPeoplePersonal

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

Artie Lange

FunnyPeopleHappenComediansJust

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