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You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
impulse malice remains
Malice remains its animating impulse. Janet Malcolm
impulse pursue following
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
impulse less likely notice perform
Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn. Gretchen Rubin
impulses logic needs people piece prompt unable
'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles. Twyla Tharp
impulse insight kids lifelong necessary understood
Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions. Bryan Stevenson
impulse mental people physical travel understand
The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel. Paul Theroux
impulse loss public
The person who swears in public has a loss of impulse control. Joseph Tecce
impulse kid tutors wrote
I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. Isabel Gillies
impulse-control years safe
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. Anna Quindlen
steady
She was just steady all through the game.
steady stream
There has been a steady stream all day.
steady
He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.
steady
That's what he does. He's been steady all year.
steady throughout time
Our slowest time through the day was from 2-4 p.m., but we were still busy. It really was steady throughout the day.
steady
He's just been really steady for us inside.
steady
Oh, my gosh, it's been pretty steady all year.
steady
I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.' Harriet Tubman