Stephen Hadley (Stephen John Hadley) Quotes

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

Stephen Hadley

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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

J. A. Konrath
- Book
- Words
- Years
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

Adam Braun
- World
- Dream
- Words
Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.

Iggy Azalea
- Music
- Culture
- Words
The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Taylor Swift
- Truth
- Words
- Generation
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

R. Buckminster Fuller
- Words
- Matter
- Few