Orson Scott Card Quotes

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Orson Scott Card

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 24, 1951

Topics

LifeHopeExperienceTrainingYou

I just don't think there have been many people that have understood how important winning is to me.

Jimmy Butler

PeopleMeWinningThinkImportant

The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of 'Six Feet Under.' It was called 'Back To The Garden.'

Jill Soloway

TimePeopleFeetBackGardenFirst

Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.

Jeremy Grantham

LeadershipChangeGovernmentBrain

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

Jeff Ross

HumorEdgyNeverClean

The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.

Jeb Bush

FreePlaceOthersTakeSuperior

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

Steve Carlton

DayYourselfStartRightUpOff

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

Steven Pinker

LifeLearningAmericanCountryLand

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

Ry Cooder

MusicPeopleDieFragileForgotten

A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

GoodStartYouChooseMove OnWant

Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I was a child, I thought Batman was the whole package. Smart, calculating, pragmatic. Depressed, but in a way women found hot. Tragic at his core and struggling with his demons while trying to save the world.

Michael Redhill

WomenSmartChildPeopleWorldWay

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

Miuccia Prada

MenStrongYouSayStrong MenWeak

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Milton Friedman

GoodPowerHarmAlso

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