#whole

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anybody #anymore #anything #certain #enterprise

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day. ↗

— Don Johnson

#interested #joy #people #pick #recognized

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#get #gold #life #olympics #train

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#feeling #finally #finish #getting #gold

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#down #drawing #essence #form #good

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#down #god #means #out #prayer

My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#benefit #characters #draw #function #functioning

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#could #day #different #different world #family

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#american #american society #cities #despair #inner

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#babysitting #because #behaviors #certain #child