Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Okri

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Augustus

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Augusten Burroughs

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Bashar al-Assad

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

Brian Tracy

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

Brian Tracy

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

Brad Friedel

For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place

Celine Dion

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

Boyd Rice

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

Cameron Crowe

Time puts things in proper perspective.

Chuck Palahniuk

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Angie Martinez

Always keep things in perspective.

Stephen Covey

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Stephen Covey

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

Stephen Covey

By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.

Shepard Smith

That is all the perspective you need!

Steven Pinker

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.