Mark Goulston Quotes

Braggarts are insecure and need attention, and bragging often has the opposite effect on most people when you're trying to gain their respect and increase your influence.

Mark Goulston

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RespectPeopleInfluenceAttention

I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you're having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.

Mekhi Phifer

GreatTimeTravelFunTime Flies

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

Meg Rosoff

LiveStrugglePeopleThinkFindWay

I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play.

Robert Pinsky

I AmPeoplePlayAdmireWayTrade

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

Shirley Manson

MeComfortRole ModelKnowRole

If you like to run and the guys can't run, you don't run. If you like power, and you have guys that can't hit it out of the park, then you start moving guys around.

Tony La Russa

PowerMovingStartYouRunPark

Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.

Robin Thede

FunnyWritingThinkGetStuckTrap

I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

Mat Kearney

PoetryMeWritingUrgencyAlways

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Mignon McLaughlin

MoneyPeopleCountSpoilWhomThem

If you think about stripping away 80 percent of the things that don't matter and focusing on the the 20 percent that will actually make a difference, I think you'll find great results even in the toughest of situations and the harshest of environments.

Julia Hartz

GreatThinkMake A DifferenceYou

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

Jonathan Safran Foer

PeopleWorldAppreciateMeatTask

Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.

Jonathan Turley

PowerLyingJuryWellCriminalOath

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Don DeLillo

DangerousJailWhyManyThem

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