I Hate Essays Quotes & Sayings

You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone — Sunday Adelaja

Pain is often the precursor to personal growth. Don't dread it. Instead, embrace it. — Robin S. Sharma

I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book. — Charles M. Blow

They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When I use people I know, all of my instincts seem to go dead, and if I'm getting anywhere near myself then I can't do it. It's actually a real weakness! I hate writing personal essays, I don't think I'm especially good at it. I like just encountering [my characters], discovering them. I love the escape of just being surrounded by all these people who are nothing like people I know. But I don't find it hard to be in the middle of a different life, with a different set of habits and way of thinking and talking. That seems to come easily to me. — Jennifer Egan

The winner of the first point is the loser of the last. — Michael Stean

We are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute. — Philip Jones Griffiths

I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death. — Mike Heil

If you are looking for a hate book you have come to the wrong place here. This book may be full of fact and discussion and even argument but it is out of concern, a concern that is not subject to some group partisan issues. It has opinion as well and this is most certainly what many critics will call many things in this book to the point that there will be whole essays of review that are just diatribes of psychological issues on both sides. — Leviak B. Kelly

Did you think of maybe telling me you were going to clean my gutters and needed a ladder to do it before taking off to look at ladders, leaving me talking to myself?" I asked. "When I took off, you weren't talkin'." I found this hard to believe, though I did have to take a breath so perhaps he'd escaped when I did that. — Kristen Ashley

When the longest- and shortest-lived of us dies their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any of us can be deprived is the present, since this is all we own, and nobody can lose what is not theirs. — Marcus Aurelius

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor, — Maurice Herzog

if he or she gambles with the family's mortgage — Ronald R. Fieve