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
• Deeper
• Prose

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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

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

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Enjoy

• 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

• Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Opportunity
  • Field
  • Provide

• First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Determination

• And I had a great time making Reloaded and Revolutions. It's great that people are coming out to see the films and I hope they enjoy them.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy.

  

  Haywood Nelson
  • Opportunity

• We should not allow the word 'democracy' to be utilized apologetically to represent the dictatorship of the exploiting classes.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Democracy

• I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Novel

• 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