Hal Higdon Quotes

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

Hal Higdon

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• We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Life
  • Without
  • Newspaper

• Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Life
  • Man
  • Food

• My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Done
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Day

• We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Parents
  • Attention

• If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • Air

• The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Feels

• I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Family
  • Friends
  • I Love

• I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Father

• The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Help
  • Style
  • Poetry

• I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Listening
  • Years
  • Records

• I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Sarcastic

• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • True
  • Consciousness
  • Access

• We're about music. We're not about politics.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Music
  • Politics

• There is always room for improvement in our game.

  

  Virgil van Dijk
  • Game
  • Improvement
  • Room

• An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Men
  • Artist
  • Immortality

• I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Real
  • Why

• If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Differences
  • Painful

• The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Differences
  • Fingers
  • Marathon