Daniel Mason Quotes

But being able to talk to so many patients from so many walks of life gives a tremendous window into people's lives. This is not to say I want to write about individual patients, but I think that after listening to the concerns of people who are so different from me, I can more realistically portray characters who are so different from me. Writing Character Thinking Giving People

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• The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • You
  • Quality

• I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Single

• If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Water

• For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Chance

• Not knowing what one is looking for is pure agony. Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also, what is logic? I think I may need to break away from analytical thinking; this is the cause of all my anxieties.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Why

• To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Thinking
  • Management

• In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.

  

  Charles Palliser
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• My buddies all still make fun of me about the whole 'Leprechaun' thing, and I'm proud of that movie. I'm just as proud of that work as I am of anything else that I've done. I feel like where I was in my career at the time, I committed to the character.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

  

  David Hume
  • Character

• My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Kids

• I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Energy

• Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.

  

  Machine Gun Kelly
  • Life
  • Live

• I think all the songs at Moth are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Eyes
  • Line
  • Horizon

• What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Done
  • Disappointment
  • Constant

• But being able to talk to so many patients from so many walks of life gives a tremendous window into people's lives. This is not to say I want to write about individual patients, but I think that after listening to the concerns of people who are so different from me, I can more realistically portray characters who are so different from me. Writing Character Thinking Giving People

  

  Daniel Mason
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Character