Hope Jahren Quotes

My lab is the place where I put my brain out on my fingers.

Hope Jahren

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BrainPlaceOutWhereFingersLab

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

Jesse Ventura

WinI CanRunGetOnlyBallot

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

Matt McGorry

ChangeFitnessMindGoalAchieving

Shawn Kemp was the player that I grew up watching, when he was with the SuperSonics.

Amar'e Stoudemire

WatchingUpPlayerHeGrewShawn

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

WisdomDoubtYouReasonExperiment

Unless I really make an effort, I quite enjoy looking a bit off and something looking a bit wrong. That's how I feel most comfortable. If anything, it's just because I'm, like, very scatty and not very good at putting stuff together.

Suki Waterhouse

GoodTogetherEffortLookingEnjoy

I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.

Robbie Robertson

MeWritingSongComfortableNever

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

Ronnie Spector

MusicCareCareerProfessionalFirst

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

Juice Newton

RunNeverOutContractPursueDid

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Christine Lavin

ChildSeriousClassKindergarten

India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.

Clark Blaise

LoveExperiencePreparationYouFall

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

Marianne Williamson

WorkLoveAngerMindControlEgo

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

Mark Strand

GreatPoetryPeopleWritingThink

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