Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, March 14, 2016 – Jack London
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, March 14, 2016 – Jack London
“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”
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“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”
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“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.”
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“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
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“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
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“There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.”
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“He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it”
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“San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.”
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“If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.”
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“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
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“Fiction pays best of all and when it is of fair quality is more easily sold. A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration. Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible – if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don’t do as I do, but do as I say.) Humour is the hardest to write, easiest to sell, and best rewarded… Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.”
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“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
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“Affluence means influence.”
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“Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?”
Wikipedia: Jack London
