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Daniel Okrent Quotes

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: american
Birth: April 2, 1948

Topics

Me Better Body Three Little Been

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Reality Way Everything Eventually

When I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's.

Work Better Say My Own Mean Own

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.

Stewart Butterfield

Myself Boss People Start Think You

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Change Past Energy Learn Enthusiasm

In my case, the business chose me.

Business Me Case Chose

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Life You Situation Over Unresolved

The American actor is much more used to being physically relaxed and using their bodies better, and English actors are a little bit unrelaxed, but they're better at vocal technique.

Miriam Margolyes

Better American Actor More Little

Latin America is convinced that, starting with South America, our way forward is to consolidate the process of integration: not theoretical integration - the integration of speeches - but physical integration, with infrastructure, with roads, with railways, with communications, with energy.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Roads Energy Forward Process America

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

Thought You Person Know Whole He

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

Me Natural Bother Ham Perform

There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Easy Fall Purity High Idea Set

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.

Life Style Smart People Reading

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