Wallace Stegner Quotes

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1909 - April 13, 1993

Topics

LifeWisdomBreakThingsHearts

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.

Jil Sander

SayingLanguageYouUnderstandAble

I always wonder if what I'm wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don't ever get ready just for myself, ever.

Jessica Simpson

MyselfPeopleWonderReadyWant

If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.

Angela Duckworth

PassionYouPersonYoungTellWould

The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.

Stanley Ho

SuccessCityStrategyVegasSpecial

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

Tony Campolo

WorkGoodGovernmentCitizenTask

I was in the U.K. and Germany and went to Volkswagen and learned about their apprenticeship model - young people become paid apprentices in trades. It's not a coincidence that youth unemployment is far lower in Germany than the United States because there are paid opportunities for young people to get experience.

Tom Perez

ExperiencePeopleYouthOpportunities

The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

Mike Watt

YourselfVoiceFindingYouFindNew

When it comes to exercise, everybody has to find what works for them. I watch my body. I look at myself in the mirror once a week - not because I'm vain, but I'm looking for moles and changes in my body.

Montel Williams

MirrorMyselfLookingBodyLook

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

Mitch Landrieu

LoveHeartSoulPeopleCityBetter

The Americans are very effective and action-driven.

Delphine Arnault

EffectiveVery

I'm not going to be one of those people who says, 'I'm a showrunner; I'm not a black showrunner.' I'm black when I go to sleep. I'm black when I wake up, period. It doesn't affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Cheo Hodari Coker

TimePerspectiveSleepI AmPeople

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

Mariska Hargitay

MeGolfFeelLoserLikeMade

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