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“It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.”

Pay Knowing Amount Taxes Pockets

Author:Andrew Bacevich

“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.”

Want Writing Made Book Character Certain Order Emotion Novel Knowing Information Reader Amount Paid Structure Guides Maintaining Payment Fidelity Paid Off

Author:David Bezmozgis

“You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.”

Men Matter Force Brain Steps Knowing Taken Seeing Amount Method Circles Faculty Idle Chalk Fruitfulness Imbecility

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.”

World Lasts Faces Dies Fall Understanding Pleasure Sun Forever Knowing Amount Adults Beloved Fashionable Passing Away Mockery Petals Savoring

Author:Amy Bloom

“Theres a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. Its worth everything.”

Mind Light Night Knowing Mankind Building Amount Late Sitting Speed Experiments Bicycle Labs Mind Boggling

Author:Lene

“I can speak for myself and say that a lot of times you just make mistakes! You're under pressure to get something done in a limited amount of time, and so you just dive in without really knowing what you're getting yourself into.”

I Can Done Speak Mistake Knowing Amount Pressure Making Mistakes Under Pressure

Author:Christopher Tin

“It's good to be aware that a certain amount of fear is going to accompany every change in your life - a change for the worse or a change for the better. Knowing this can stop you from moving into fear about Change Itself. If you start fearing change generically you could wind up shrinking from ever making any kind of change at all for the rest of your day - even a change that obviously should be made for your own good.”

Ifs Should Kind Made Moving Certain Knowing Wind Amount Accompany Shrinking Change For The Better

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.”

Knows Wells Quality Knowing Amount Quantity

Book:Psychology and the Science of Education: Selected Writings

Source: Psychology and the Science of Education: Selected Writings

“All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly. Changing things around. Firing and recasting. Constantly, constantly, in chronological sequence, not really knowing how this is going to end up. That is the only dogmatic approach I take towards everything.”

Made Ends Process Knowing Amount Approach Sequence Firing Dogmatic

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.”

Used Certain Ability Knowing Talent Amount Dissatisfaction Talents And Abilities

Author:Zig Ziglar

“One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and use underscoring of original music that I was planning on composing. The decision was mostly predicated on knowing how time consuming the editing of dialogue can be and given the various locations we shot in, I didn't want to worry about having to mix room tones in such a short amount of time.”

“Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.”

Thinking Knowing Huge Amount Ego Bravery Rejected Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Kit Williamson