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“I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.”

Writing My Own Grief Disease Majors Losing Decided Affected Refuge Mobility

Author:Tara Brach

“I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.”

“People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.”

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.”

Natural My Own Generations Fields Majors Transformation Tiny Selection Premises Natural Selection Immensity Paleontology Geological Time

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.”

Knows World Writing Has Beens School Voice My Own College Majors Training Instinct Medical Backgrounds Narrative Biology Formal Medical School Narrative Voice

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engine? He never built it. ... I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.' He taps his own skull.”

Thinking Different Might Science My Own Heard Majors Built Machines Mathematics Engines Skulls Analytics

Author:David Leavitt

“If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Force My Own Conditions Anxiety Majors Including Contemporary Bewilderment Magical Thinking

Author:Mike Young

“I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.”

My Own Records Majors Selling Labels Selling More

Author:Aimee Mann

“I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.”

People Persons Bits My Own Personality Solitude Majors Solitary

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling these agencies we often don't know where some ideas are going to lead, but we hope they are going to clarify a problem.”

Knows Should Ideas Problem Found My Own Results Views Honest Majors Being Honest Agency Committees Recommendations

Author:David Mumford

“In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Has Beens Purpose My Own Study Building Habit Approach Majors Solutions Program Clients Toilets Classicists

Author:Philip Johnson

“My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.”

“But really - look at the span of my career, and it's something people dream about. And to be spared major injury: I had some moments along the way, but being able to retire on my own terms after having driven during those decades when safety conditions were more precarious than today - am I lucky, or what?”

People Way Looks Moments Dream Today Able Term My Own Careers Conditions Lucky Majors Safety Driven Decades Injury Retiring Precarious

Author:Mario Andretti

“When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.”

Feels Writing Firsts Littles Differences My Own Majors Finals Editors Lenses Feels Right Major Change

Author:Len Wein

“I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.”

Knows Men Way Want Ideas Would Be Wanted Jobs Young Mother My Own Trouble College Demand Majors Letters Hated Young Man Serving Good Job Thrilling Shorthand English Major Plain English

Author:Sylvia Plath

“The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.”

My Own Influence Rocks Band Majors Thanks Rock N Roll Clash

Author:Bruce Springsteen