Kristin Armstrong Quotes

Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.

Kristin Armstrong

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LearningMyselfParentingPeopleMe

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

Joanna Trollope

MeYouPerfectIntellectualStylist

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.

John Dickerson

BestFocusCreativityWiseChoice

The people who are afraid of talking to press are people who have something to hide.

Andrew Zimmern

PeopleTalkingHideAfraidSomething

I want to be the first British person to lift a UFC World Title.

Michael Bisping

WorldPersonLiftWantFirstUFC

There is no one who is present all the time, but you work on becoming present when you are interacting with people who are working for you, being able to hear them without a sense of threat, to go into those meetings with confidence and not arrogance.

Amy Cuddy

WorkConfidenceTimePeoplePresent

There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.

Stephen Kinzer

RiseDefeatNewNationForceAshes

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

Trinny Woodall

WomanIdentityFeelNewDifferent

Pilot season's such a strange time. You get such a concentrated amount of scripts. A lot of them become white noise after a while. When something really pops, it becomes apparent very quickly. I'm quite instinctive about that. I know, normally by about 10 pages in, whether I want to do something or not.

Tom Ellis

TimeYouWhiteKnowWantBecome

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

Robert Trout

BestCreativityManPainSociety

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

Jonathan Coe

PaintingStartPoliticalSometimes

I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.

DMX

NewRapperRecallExcitedBeing

I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.

Donald Hall

MorningBackChangesWriteSheOut

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