Balanced Quote by Adam Gopnik Download Open image “I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.” — Adam Gopnik ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Balanced Opinionated Speak Thinking Writing
I'm a very opinionated person and when I feel something I have to say it. — Linford Christie Copy Share Image
I'm a very highly opinionated person, and so people assume I'm opining on everything; when I open my mouth and say something, it's an… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow… — Gavin Lyall Copy Share Image
I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I am a very emotional person. I basically think and feel in emotion, so writing is much easier for me than communicating by voice… — Kelly Oxford Copy Share Image
I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it's good. If it's bad, it's bad. I… — Mel B Copy Share Image
When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
“There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think -… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection… — Terence Conran Copy Share Image
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire… — Jewel Copy Share Image
The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other… — Peter Orszag Copy Share Image
The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism. — Ovadia Yosef Copy Share Image
Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous with a… — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I do try to watch it. I'm not saying you have to put yourself on a diet, because I hate the word "diet." But… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image