Jonathan Dee Quotes
I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.
Quotes to Explore
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
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Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
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Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.
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I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.
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I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.
