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Ground Quotes
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If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground (Ground Quotes)
It’s poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there’s not a bunch of flags on the ground (Ground Quotes)
I live a pretty balanced life. As hard as I do work and as many things that I do... I take a lot of time to stay physically strong. I really just try to get the proper rest. I don’t run myself into the ground (Ground Quotes)
I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts! (Ground Quotes)
If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That’s why you don’t find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories (Ground Quotes)
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue (Ground Quotes)
The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether (Ground Quotes)
Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells (Ground Quotes)
It’s to be expected that you make mistakes when you’re breaking new ground (Ground Quotes)
When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library (Ground Quotes)
Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope (Ground Quotes)
Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul (Ground Quotes)
What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution (Ground Quotes)
Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer’s job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible (Ground Quotes)
Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn’t working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn’t working hard enough (Ground Quotes)
I’m more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I’ve noticed, or you’ll be swept aside (Ground Quotes)
Getting older doesn’t help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you’re listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can’t be a hit for you, it’s gonna be a hit for somebody else. That’s tough (Ground Quotes)
I don’t like people that litter. If you don’t throw a wrapper in the trashcan and you just toss it out on the ground I wanna take you and toss you into outer space (Ground Quotes)
Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It’s when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That’s collaboration (Ground Quotes)
There’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids (Ground Quotes)
God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet! (Ground Quotes)
Democracy... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down (Ground Quotes)
My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground (Ground Quotes)
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do (Ground Quotes)
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director’s imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground (Ground Quotes)
People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low (Ground Quotes)
The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all (Ground Quotes)
On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever (Ground Quotes)
I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground (Ground Quotes)
You don’t break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That’s like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all (Ground Quotes)