E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

E. L. Konigsburg

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Career
  • Been
  • Focused

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • America
  • Culture
  • Period

• While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Right
  • Theater
  • Musical

• Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Great
  • Succeed
  • Founders

• I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Rest

• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ended

• There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Nothing
  • Holocaust
  • Compares

• If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Lead

• I was always amazed when people were kind to us.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • People

• If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Practice
  • Surfing

• There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.

  

  Albert Camus
  • True
  • Miracle

• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Up

• I'm not a politician.

  

  Eric Braeden

• Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Purpose
  • Present
  • Beginning

• Distinction between person and office is wholly alien to the teaching of Jesus. He says nothing about that. He addresses his disciples as men who have left all to follow him, and the precept of non-violence applies equally to private life and official duty. He is the Lord of all life, and demands undivided allegiance.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Life
  • Men
  • Jesus

• Because real love doesn’t have anything to do with perfection. Real love is what happens when everything isn’t perfect…and you love each other anyway.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Real Love
  • Perfection

• I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Kids

• If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Life
  • Real
  • Missing

• How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Missing
  • Absence
  • Mets