Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

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• It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Growth
  • Learn
  • Impossible

• I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Words
  • Like
  • Painting

• After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Practice
  • Back
  • Nap

• Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • May
  • Deep

• For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Never
  • Air
  • Enough

• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  

  Tacitus
  • Generosity
  • Ruin
  • Moderation

• Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Moving
  • Body
  • Path

• All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Business
  • Being
  • Consumer

• I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
  • Want
  • Know

• I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Sure
  • Hearing

• As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Finding

• Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Time
  • Construction

• In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Consistency

• No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against 'no fault' insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Great
  • Success
  • Control

• I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Life
  • Smart

• I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • People
  • Writing
  • Guy

• There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

  

  Chelsea Handler

• Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Simple

• Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Powerful

• The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Business
  • Giving
  • Income

• It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Progress

• The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Night

• I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer