Hugh Howey Quotes

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

Hugh Howey

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StartBookGrowNeverSeeBored

We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn't happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.

Jim Yong Kim

OceanFactsThoughtThings Happen

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Joe Namath

MyselfI CanKnowPrepareUntil

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

John Buchan

EmotionBecauseHeLightlyDeeply

There's always this joke that I say in Israel: people don't really have discussions; they just try to convince the other people that they are wrong or they are right - they just try to impose their opinion on the others. Sometimes I think it's easier to avoid talking about things and just make music.

Anat Cohen

MusicPeopleOpinionThinkTalking

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Anna Sewell

BusinessNowSayOppressionSee

I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.

Amy Sherald

PaintingBlackEnoughBodyWantWay

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

Tom Cole

EndDebateTaxAgainstPeriod

On the field, everyone is equal.

Roger Milla

EqualEveryoneField

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

Michael Morpurgo

MotherTimeWomanMeBookReading

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

Julia Cameron

ChildBoredomFindTryFixHer

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

Alice McDermott

RomanticDarknessSoulThinkYoung

If you send out one coupon with a deadline of a week and another that must be used within the next month, you end up having more redemptions with the one week deadline. It's really amazing. With the month deadline you have four times as much time, but people tend to say they'll use it in a few weeks' time and then they don't do it.

Sendhil Mullainathan

TimePeopleAmazingEndWeekYou

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