Stewart O'Nan Quotes

It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper.

Stewart O'Nan

• Opportunity
• Enjoy
• Determination
• Bears
• Concentration
• Prose
• Deeper

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• The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Enjoy Life

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Game
  • Enjoy
  • Hitting

• Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Opportunity
  • Growing

• There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Present
  • Confidence
  • Enjoy

• They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Enjoy

• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Opportunity
  • Single
  • Training

• But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Alone
  • Determination
  • Socialism

• If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Enjoy
  • Lose
  • Victories

• If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team's strength. But a rank turner might backfire.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Opportunity

• I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Enjoy

• I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Live
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Great
  • She
  • Job

• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Unique

• As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Work
  • Past

• I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.

  

  J. R. Bourne
  • Mind
  • Opportunity
  • Playing

• The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

  

  Eula Biss
  • Mind
  • Opportunity

• I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Health
  • Exercise

• An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • Art
  • May

• Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Food
  • Eye
  • Pleasure

• I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees

• It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper.

  

  Stewart O'Nan
  • Opportunity
  • Enjoy
  • Determination