Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Attention
  • Desire
  • Bored

• The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Actions
  • Active

• Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Innovation
  • New
  • Disappear

• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Best
  • Thought

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Confidence
  • Vision
  • Creativity

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Bad
  • You
  • Race

• My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • English
  • Mother`s

• I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Like
  • Player
  • Everything

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Cautious

• Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Children
  • Health

• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Myself

• I do not claim any ability to read God's mind. I am sure of only one thing. When we look at the glory of stars and galaxies in the sky and the glory of forests and flowers in the living world around us, it is evident that God loves diversity. Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• I try to focus on what I'm supposed to do, and to do my job the best I can. I kind of let everything happen the way it's supposed to happen, let everything fall into place the way it should.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Job
  • Fall
  • Focus

• Folks say that you've found someone new to do the things I used to do for you. Just call my name, I'm not ashamed, I'll come running back to you. Can't sleep at night, Ican't eat a bite. When you were mine I didn't treat you right. Just call my name,I know, I know I'm not ashamed. I'll come running back to you.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Night
  • Running
  • Sleep

• It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
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  • Thinking
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