Geoff Dyer Quotes

In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film.

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• Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.

  

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  

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• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

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• If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.

  

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• Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

  

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• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

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• The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

  

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• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

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• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

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• I was physically abused and I retaliated.

  

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• To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.

  

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• Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

  

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• I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

  

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• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

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• Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.

  

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• You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.

  

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• Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

  

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• In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

  

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• In college, I interned at a production company and spent a lot of time on sets. I love music videos and felt I could be experimental and hone my craft in that genre, so I started there.

  

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• If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.

  

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• In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

  

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• In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Night