Floyd Skloot Quotes

A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

Floyd Skloot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 6, 1947

Topics

CharacterFocusWritingIgnoreLose

For India's economy to expand as rapidly and yet more sustainably than China's, we need to make our differences into virtues rather than vulnerabilities.

Anand Mahindra

DifferencesIndiaMoreNeedEconomy

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Sophie Swetchine

PerseverancePowerTimeEndSilent

If you receive a whole string of bad reviews, you have to say, 'O.K., maybe there's something here we should pay attention to.'

Simon Rattle

AttentionYouBadSayPay Attention

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

Tom Hopkins

WisdomStartEnoughYouWillBecome

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.

Ron Lewis

FutureEnergyCountryBuildOilGas

My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.

Mary Gordon

FatherPoliticsMeIdeasFindWho

Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.

Martin Seligman

LifePositiveExperiencePeopleRest

I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.

Loni Love

MyselfWantStudyingAlwaysImprove

Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising.

Christopher Walken

MeFindSayQuirkyCallAnnoying

I scroll through Instagram and Twitter, and whenever I see something that speaks to me, I take a screenshot to save it for red carpet inspiration. Sometimes, if I see an outfit I like on the street, I'll take a picture, too. References are so important.

Ally Brooke

RedMePictureOutfitSometimesSee

I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.

Poo Bear

PeopleCreditUsedWorkingJust

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

Serj Tankian

MusicTruthTimeMeImportantWay

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