Tracy Kidder Quotes

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Tracy Kidder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkMindWork HardYouAliveKnow

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

Jimmy Connors

LifeStoryMy LifeKnowWhyReal

Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.

Jen Kirkman

FunnyBusinessGirlYouStageBring

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

John Doerr

KnowBigHowAboutBlogs

I don't know why the word 'solopreneur' is in our lexicon. Nobody can physically do it all by themselves, and more importantly, why would they want to? Being the sales team, the HR department, management, and production all by yourself is terrible. Period.

Michael Gerber

YourselfTeamManagementNobodyKnow

Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it saturates the whole being.

Sri Chinmoy

SoulPeopleWorldThinkConfused

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

Rollie Fingers

BaseballDecisionsNumbersRunOdds

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

Mike Pence

TodayGovernmentProudStrongShip

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

SinPunishmentOutPainfulPart

My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say.

Luke Evans

MotherMyselfMeThinkPictureSay

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Joseph Conrad

WomenHonorYouKnowNeverHold

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

Christopher Stanley

HumilityThinkPersonBeingI Think

I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.

Christian Louboutin

ThinkLovedAlwaysColourWeaving

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