#touc

My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#constant #days #flexible #hours #i

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#carson #central #commits #dreams #east

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#definition #life #tragedy #untouched #yet

The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#better #better chance #chance #control #creates

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself. ↗

— Robbie Williams

#anybody #anyone #days #feel #haven

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#every #period #reader #robert #sf

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#about #being #check #ever #giving

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#communicate #everything #first #first of all #joy

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#believes #clinton #corps #dealing #inconceivable

Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables. ↗

— Martin Yan

#cuisine #eat #kids #meat #never