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George C. Wolfe Quotes

When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

George C. Wolfe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1954

Topics

New York Remember New Know Little

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

Doing Swearing Just Lot Considered

The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that's sometimes tough in the environment we're in.

Jeff Fortenberry

Good Peace Tough Environment You

Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It's part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.

Nature Business Technology Best You

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Architecture School Me Design China

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Leadership Quality Excellence People

Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.

Good Practice Preparation Confident

You want to go out there, and you want to be sharp, and you want to execute your game plan and... get it done fast.

Game Plan You Fast Done Want

You can inspire the world. Or you can be liked by all. You don't get to do both.

Robin S. Sharma

World Inspire You Get Liked Both

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Wisdom Honesty World Wealth Bread

In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.

Life Opportunity Children Parents

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

Humor Focus Adventure Action Reading

I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter.

Arthur Phillips

Good Right Person Aesthetic You Find

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