Cheryl Strayed Quotes

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

Cheryl Strayed

Quotes to Explore

If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

Wayne Swan
- People
- Life
- Music
In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.

Hailey Gates
- People
- Woman
- Emotional
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

Octavia E. Butler
- People
- Attitude
- Changes
I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

Randy Pausch
- Fun
- Today
- Day
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

Nas
- People
- Power
- Generation
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Warren Buffett
- People
- Long
- Today