Swerdlin Quotes & Sayings

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it. — Kenneth Patchen

You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before. — Scott Speedman

Psychologists call it "learned helplessness" when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life. — J.D. Vance

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize. — Eric Ries

A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage. — Sunday Adelaja

A painting walks into the room supported by the collector. It is the painting of a nude by a contemporary artist. She is scarred by shadows from venetian blinds. "The ritual scarification of light and shadow," I say. But am thinking, silently, the female nude is the self-ironization of the male. She, in his shadow, by design. — Carla Harryman

Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win. — Vladimir Putin

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. — Erma Bombeck

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ... — Elizabeth Montagu

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired. — Paul Dickson

When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery. — Greg Norman

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet. William Butler Yeats — Jack Kornfield