- Nov 07, 2020
Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never for a minute felt in was my stock picking abilities. I feel that my stock picking abilities aided- I was able to pick out which are the good stocks in the good market, but I have been blessed with a great market.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going until it's right.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.
- Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020