Jasper Fforde Quotes

If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

Jasper Fforde

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FreedomChildrenYouWillLittle

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

Sugata Mitra

ComputersBuildOwnKidsAspirations

Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow.

Siri Hustvedt

EyesPeopleDinnerSomeoneParty

You don't write a book to show off.

Tony Orlando

BookYouWriteShow OffShowOff

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

BestOutWordSpokenTuneUnkind

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Russell Baker

ManGoalDefeatHimObjectsResist

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

Mike Krzyzewski

ResponsibilityWinYouFailTake

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

Joyce Meyer

FeelGuiltBadWrongRightYears

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom

StrengthTodayTomorrowSympathy

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

ManHappyBe HappyWorldPlaceTwo

The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawcet, Thomas Holcroft, George Dyson, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

William Godwin

ImprovementMindFeelPrincipalFour

A shoe dog is somebody that really loves shoes, and that was me. I was a runner... that became important to me, and it's been with me ever since.

Phil Knight

DogShoesMeImportantShoeBeen

I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.

Richard Dooling

LoveTimeLimitsComputersDoingGo

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