William Zinsser Quotes
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
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If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.
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It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
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I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
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Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.
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Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.
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You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.
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I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.
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I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
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The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.
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Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."
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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
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When you hear somebody say, 'This is not about sex' - it's about sex.
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Pride takes a lot of breaking.
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Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.
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Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
