Jerry Harrison Quotes
But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
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Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
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The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
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It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'
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'I am the King.' Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones - scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago - was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
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One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
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Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.
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When I broke my leg, I never thought I'd ever be skating again let alone be standing on a world podium. I had to relearn how to skate, relearn how to even stand on one foot again. I had to relearn all my technique.
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It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' of course.
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But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.
