Terry Pratchett Quotes

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

Topics

ImaginationMeLooksWildInvention

Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.

Jimmy Chin

ResponsibilityTrustDeepYouChoose

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

Joan Cusack

MeInterestingFindKindMoreMean

To me, sci-fi has the most amazing style.

John Gourley

StyleAmazingMeSci-FiMost

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

Robert Kagan

ChallengesPrioritiesEuropeDefense

There would be no Mauro Ranallo in MMA, or maybe even period, to be truly honest with you... without Bas Rutten's friendship, mentorship, and just belief in my talents.

Mauro Ranallo

FriendshipYouBeliefTalentsMMA

Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.

Jeff Hawkins

ImmigrationEarthNationHereMade

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Johnny Carson

PeopleWillMorePayEducatedThan

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Stendhal

StyleNowWillFortyYearsNobility

Christians historically have believed wrong on issues. Take slavery: they believed wrong on that issue for generations, and it had, just, repercussions that were staggeringly negative for our culture and my community. So it is possible to be Christian and to believe wrongly and practice wrongly.

Tony Evans

CommunityCulturePracticeNegative

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Russell Baker

LoveAgeYourselfFashionAdmission

I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as many things for as long as they can. Specialization is a natural thing that should come later - it shouldn't come for 8-year-olds.

Douglas Brunt

LongWantThingsNaturalComeKids

When Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric, he was able to produce record growth year after year by using a few simple principles relentlessly. The system of management he used was called differentiation.

Clay Clark

GrowthSimpleManagementYearSystem

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