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writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine Carlos Fuentes
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. Carlos Fuentes
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. Carlos Fuentes
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more. Carlos Fuentes
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. Carlos Fuentes
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. Carlos Fuentes
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine. Carlos Fuentes
dumb words-of-wisdom injustice-and-oppression
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement. Charles Dickens
dumb dumb-questions underestimate
Never underestimate a dumb question. Brandon Boyd
dumb lust mind
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body. Charlaine Harris
dumb question
The only dumb question is the one you don't ask. Phil Bass
dumb canada geography
I get to go to overseas places, like Canada. Britney Spears
dumb important needs
We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers. Ashwin Sanghi
dumb proposal work
This proposal is to dumb down the work force. Eric Thompson
dumb acquisition credit
The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall]. Charlie Munger
dumb speak blind
The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing. Charles Manson
reader second
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel. Kathryn Stockett
reader though
I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late. Nick Harkaway
readers
The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval. Lee Siegel
readers reluctant
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. Barbara Park
readers
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. Amy Bloom
readers
The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest. Dionne Bromfield
readers time
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard. Bobby Ghosh
reader
You've got to be a good date for the reader. Kurt Vonnegut
reader war
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side. P. J. O'Rourke