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character
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.
negative plenty
I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life. David Cross
negative defined
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. Chris Bohjalian
negative phase stocks
We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now. Doug Arthur
negative maximizing minimizing
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative. Barbara Corcoran
negative relief form
I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral. Catherine Tate
negative timeless accentuate
I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing, Casey Kasem
negative morality said
Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code. Bertrand Russell
negative littles way
For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood. Charlie Munger
negative
We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.
said bargains
I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain. Aasif Mandvi
said
Least said, soonest mended Charles Dickens
said
Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do. David Mitchell
said
Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once. Brandon Sanderson
said
A thing is a thing, not what is said of a thing Birdman
said last-words
I've said all that I've had to say. Bill Hicks
said psychiatrist psychoanalysis
I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis. Diane Keaton
said employers workers
Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers. Dennis Hastert
said staring
I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me... Bo Burnham