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“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.”

“When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.”

Thinking Should May Long Left Term Pieces Stage Poet Reader Fame Ten Critics Following Stealing Temples Pounds Orthodox Justification Long Ago Shrinks Posterity Condemnation Charlatans

Author:Laura Riding

“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.”

“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.”

Long Body Form Spirit Born Path Thousand Ten Eternal Seasons Regard Blessed Ancient Bitter Wander Mortals Broads Bloody Long Life Oath Gore Heirs Decree Utterance Thrice

Author:Empedocles

“In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline”

Long Has Beens Important Matter Growth Term Company Ten Investment Nine Factors Long Term Consideration Decline Dominant Fluctuation

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“I understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's a lot! - and those more generous spirits whose thumbs grow as long as Pinocchio's nose from overrating a lot of pictures, because they want the medium to do well, and because they'd like to feel good about it.”

Want Feels Years Wells Long Feelings Film Spirit Grows Ten Hollywood Critics Come Up Feel Good Mediums Noses Generous Thumbs Best Film Generous Spirit

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?”

Children Long Ten Absolutes Humanism Mainstream Commandments Pornography Abandonment Ten Commandments Relativism

Author:Randall Terry

“The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future in a dazzling way that has nothing to do with looking backward. It's been a long wait for a new novel from Mark Leyner, but worth it. Ten out of ten from me.”

Way Feels Long Waiting Novel Ten Mark Sexy Fantastic Sugar Looking Back Worth It Dazzling Long Wait

Author:Douglas Coupland

“What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman; Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!”

World Years Long War Done Lasts Lost Causes Women Ten Mark Destructive Betray Ashes Capitol Deceitful Antony

Book:The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes

Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes

“Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?”

People Ifs Want Life Years Long Self Body Age Dies Ten Long Life Maintenance Absorption Self Absorption Hope To Live

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.”

Knows World Needs Years Long Seems Three Found Hours Brain Class Practice Cases Week Achieve Thousand Ten Accomplished Mastery Expertise World Class

Author:Daniel Levitin

“After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.”

Years Long Play Ten Twelve Parody

Author:Larry Hagman

“Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.”

People Men Long Country States America Black White Land Ten Black People White Man North America

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.”

Long Politician Ten Rude Pennies Interviewers

Author:Andrew Marr

“It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.”

Writing Years Long Book Ten Seven Agents Bags

Author:Jasper Fforde

“The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.”

May Long Made Minutes Ten Understood Complicated Ems Commandments Ten Commandments

Book:The Will Rogers book

Source: The Will Rogers book

“We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”

Long Matter Earth Lasts Stars Stuff Consciousness Wonder Path Planets Evolution Ten Spring Ancient Billions Obligation Organized Collections Cosmos Atoms Contemplating Planet Earth Tracing

Author:Carl Sagan

“I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.”

Thinking Way Long Stories Minutes Ten Bills Hindsight Monologues Yarn Long Story Personal Stories

Author:Ed Helms

“A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.”

“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.”

Years Long Order Given Half Five Four Ten Percent Investing Favors Nine Gambling Odds Casinos

Author:Burton Malkiel

“I don't know if there's a proper way to define toughness in a runner, but I do know that there comes a sudden moment when the mindset shifts. The impossible becomes doable, or at least attemptable. The long run goes from two miles to four to ten to fifteen, until it becomes routine at some point deep in an intense training cycle to knock off a couple hours without giving it a thought.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Long Two Moments Running Hours Four Impossible Couple Ten Training Mindset Miles Intense Cycles Routine Long Runs Fifteen Runners Toughness Intense Training

Author:Martin Dugard

“I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.”

Long Humor Would Be Funny Comedy Havens Ten Cool Status

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.”

Long Two Enough Lasts Week Minutes Ten Two Weeks Coke Hangover

Author:John Waters

“I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight.”

Ifs Writing Years Long Made Enough Wanted Felt Ten Twenties Originals Lists Remembered Recalls Highlights Total Recall

Author:Len Wiseman

“The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.”

Ifs Way Needs Long Running Goal Loses Loss Succeed Ten Weight Pounds Target Long Runs Doomed Willpower Weight Loss Bypass

Author:Scott Adams

“There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.”

Kind Long Able Fun Minutes Healthy Ten Just Being Good And Bad Pretentious Having Patience Bad Movies

Author:Susanne Bier

“Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird.”

Years Long Has Beens Reality Earth Universe Names Space Calling Ten Complexes Incredibles Physics Billions Quantum Nasty Bizarre Quantum Physics Configuration

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.”

Way Years Long Book Care Three Ten Twenties Lasting Three Years Notoriety

Author:Dan Chaon

“I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.”

“If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.”

Ifs Long Two Book Would Be Artist Strong Fiction Five Ten Married Lists Tales Evening After Death Evoke Fiction Writers Married Life Gail

Author:Ned Rorem

“For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.”

Needs Years Long Play Term Risk Offers Ten Shots Gains Accounts Investment Long Term Retirement Packs Inflation Best Shot

Author:Suze Orman

“On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.”

Men Mean Children Long Has Beens Humanity Parent Vision Break Path Our Lives Growing Ten Authority Twenties Agree Sacred Giants Judged Quests Commandments Fullness Moses Pilgrim Growing Children

Author:Sam Keen

“You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.”

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.”

Should Years Long Reason Seems Term Lessons Ten Years Ago Should Have Management Investment Primaries Long Term Belly

Author:Richard Thaler

“The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.”

Long Term Ten Rate Corporate Long Term Multiple Earning Inverse Corporate Bond

Author:Peter Cundill

“I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!”

Thinking Years Long Five Minutes Fashion Ten Clothes Long Time Daughter Closets Five Minutes Vintage Our Daughter Your Daughter

Author:Tom Ford

“My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD, that's it, simple.”

Knows Way Years Long Two Ends Stories Simple Know How Five Tvs Theory Ten Computer Screens Cinema Two Ways Dvds

Author:Eric Fellner

“I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.”

Ifs Feels Long Song Minutes Ten Seven

Author:Charlie Daniels

“It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes.”

Long Different Song Attention Technology Minutes Ten Albums One Time Coins Chords Convenience Variation Progression Attention Span

Author:Cee Lo Green

“Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.”

Long Film Spirit Three Lost Minutes Internet Ten Projects Hundred Twenties Treated Versions Collision Archives Fragmented Consecutive

Author:Guy Maddin

“When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.”

Writing Trying Years Long Lasts Written Cry Ten Finished

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?”

Should Long Government Care Turns Three Ten Prosperity Income Socialism Inequality Discussion Spite Commandments Petty Ten Commandments Covetousness Income Inequality Thievery

Author:Ben Shapiro

“I also liked it when professors assigned us stories that they love. In general, I liked workshops more when they were more than just a workshop, when the professor took the time to actually guide us as young writers and teach us things it took them a long time to figure out on their own. I could probably write ten pages on this question.”

Writing Long Stories Young Teach Figures Ten Pages Long Time Guides Professors Workshops Young Writers

Author:Mary J. Miller

“Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.”

Thinking Long Happens Hours Sleep Walks Imagine Minutes Fronts Ten Noses Daylight Smartphones Long Walks

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“The music director, Stephen Oremus, was telling me: "I hope you've done your work." We only have ten days rehearsal. The music is no joke. My solo singing is not that hard. But the stuff I have as part of the choir or as a "Dead Guest" in the second-half... I'm singing some really incredible chorus stuff that I haven't done in a long time. It's extremely difficult.”

Long Hard Done Stuff Difficult Half Havens Directors Ten Music Is Long Time Singing Jokes Incredibles Guests Solo Rehearsal Chorus Choir

Author:Max von Essen

“Before Community started up again for the season, we had the chance to go on a long family vacation where we drove for ten days down the coast. I was like wow, look at these people that I am related to and am actually spending some quality time with! So it was great to be with them, but now my schedule is really difficult so I have to take what I can get.”

People Looks Long I Can Difficult Community Chance Quality Goes On Ten Seasons Spending Related Wow Vacation Schedules Coast Quality Time Family Vacation

Author:Joel McHale

“Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.”

Long Speak Minutes Ten Speakers

Author:James C Humes

“As long as you win Monaco, that's the one. In my ten years of Formula One, I've only won here once. This is my second time.Every year, it feels like this is your Achilles heel. You almost have it and then you don't. It's such a hard race to win.”

Feels Years Long Hard Winning Race Ten Formulas Heels Achilles Formula One Achilles Heel Monaco

Author:Lewis Hamilton

“We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That influx of refugees wouldn't have stopped - on the contrary. It would have gone on and on and on, until there would have been an explosion. We were no longer able to control the arrival of those people, in our own interest we had to stop it! That's what I said to Mr.[Richard] Nixon, to all the other leaders I visited in an attempt to avert the war.”

People Knows Long Has Beens Said War Able Interest Situation Leader Millions Know How Gone Ten Contrary Soil Tolerate Refugee Explosions Arrivals Unstable Avert

Author:Indira Gandhi

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