George Saunders Quotes

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

George Saunders

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1958

Topics

PeopleMindPersonMattersWrite

Puma is a brand deeply rooted in sporting lifestyle.

Jochen Zeitz

BrandLifestyleRootedDeeply

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Robert Rauschenberg

TimeWordsInterestingMomentumStop

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.

John Henrik Clarke

WorldExpectationsPoliticalDream

My new toy is not knowing, because it's very creative. I'm the guy who likes to get in the car and get lost.

Jeffrey Tambor

CarCreativeNot KnowingLostNew

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Tom Verlaine

QualityWonderSoundI WonderLike

I like to shop for old jazz albums.

Ron Cephas Jones

JazzOldLikeAlbumsShop

Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

Julia Cameron

PathSpiritualPracticePeopleFind

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.

Little Milton

BornPlaceLittleI Was BornMs

In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect capital toward productivity-enhancing spending - the key to long-term improvement in living standards.

Joseph Stiglitz

ImprovementResearchKeyCreateLand

I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.'

Diane Paulus

WorkHopeChallengeTogetherIdeas

It's wonderful being the underdog.

Diane Lane

UnderdogWonderfulBeing

When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.

Denis Villeneuve

LifeExperienceJoyMindThink

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