Quotes & Sayings About Raise Your Voice Not The Sea Level

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch. — Alexander Alekhine

You know a school is run by stuck-up sons of bitches when it doesn't even have a bike rack. — Francesca Zappia

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes it's hard to know when you've crossed the line from conscientious to compulsive. When you're in the thick of an assignment, it's easy to believe that you must spend so much time brainstorming, researching, writing, testing, revising or what-have-you. Often, it's only after you've been working for hours on end that you realize that half the work you've been doing wasn't actually necessary and that you've just wasted a lot of time. — Michael Law

Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion. — David Halberstam

It was simpler just to keep things simple. — Bruce Crown

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. — Charles Dudley Warner

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something. — Atul Gawande

I'm not God.
Then find someone who is, man. — Colum McCann

Endurance is not the frail and tenuous thing some think it, but is in reality the measuring rod of our sanity and may be safely stretched to fill our direst need. — Jan Cox Speas

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough. — Arthur C. Clarke

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action. — Christopher Lambert

My hatred gives me strength. — Janet Fitch