Walter Jon Williams Quotes
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.
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William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
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The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
