Jim Crace Quotes

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Jim Crace

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• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Question
  • Never

• I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Book
  • Drawing
  • Old

• Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.

  

  Iman
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Feel

• Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Afraid
  • Anyway
  • Sucks

• The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Invest
  • Portfolio

• My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Expected
  • Grandpa
  • Planned

• On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Know
  • Nobody

• I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Good
  • Food
  • Cook

• I hate to cook and love to eat.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Eat

• I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Problems

• God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

  

  Avicenna
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Knowledge

• The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• The way the press works, people don't like to review or talk about EPs. It's considered, 'Why don't you just wait for the record?' But for someone who's creating, and the audience, they can get material quicker. I almost feel like putting out a few songs every couple months might be better than putting out an album every year or two.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • People
  • Why
  • Couple

• I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Hockey

• People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Food

• Traditional consumer banking will come under extreme pressure as its central deposit-taking and lending functions are challenged by online savings vehicles, crowdfunding, and loan syndicating by such nontraditional competitors as insurance companies, pension and hedge funds.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • Insurance

• I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Why
  • Stop
  • Theatre

• I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic
  • Innocent

• I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Small
  • Child
  • Little Things

• As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

  

  Jim Crace