Tracy Kidder Quotes

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

Tracy Kidder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 12, 1945

Topics

GoodDayWritingBookEndDone

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

Joe Baca

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No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.

Robert Reich

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We as a society need to become healthier.

Matthew Heineman

SocietyBecomeNeedHealthier

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Jean-Paul Sartre

YouSayUnderstandAbstractAnything

If you're going to wear statement shoes, it is best to keep your outfit simple.

Jeanne Damas

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Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

Steve Erickson

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People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

Steven Pinker

TodayPeopleThoughtConnectionsGet

I love pop and rap. Bringing those two worlds together is always fun.

Tony Oller

LoveTogetherFunTwoAlwaysRap

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Russell Brand

YourselfHappyPeopleBe HappyCare

I can't criticize an athlete if they say they're injured.

Donovan Bailey

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I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.

Chief Bender

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Chinese martial artists consider themselves to be gardeners, and it's an honor for them to take care of this garden, to better it and hand it over to the generations that follow. I think that's a very important message in a time when personal achievement seems to be the only criteria of success.

Wong Kar-wai

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