Carl Honore Quotes
We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
Quotes to Explore
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.
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There are several hundred people who stayed in the Ebola-affected countries and continued to do the work, put themselves at great risk because medical workers are the most likely to be infected because they're helping out when the person's health is deteriorating, including quite a bit of bleeding as they're getting very, very sick.
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Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
