- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.
- Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reach for greatness, nothing less. And make sure you have some fun along the way.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.
- Calculations
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. This means you are wrong - but how do you deal with that? Is there something wrong with the theory, or something wrong with the way you are doing the calculation?
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.
- Hardships
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a convention in English stuff that if something is more than 100 years old, people have to say 'do not' instead of 'don't. They have to say 'will not' instead of 'won't.' People are speaking in a way that is not accessible or normal. And people didn't ever speak like that.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020