Why Quotes

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You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to… — Charlie Munger
My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me"… — Fred Rogers
As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the… — Jim Cramer
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be… — James A. Michener
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with. — Ansen Dibell
These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position. — Drake
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is… — Kurt Vonnegut
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar… — Beryl Bainbridge
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that… — Arthur David Beaty
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… — Bill Bryson
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others. — Susan Sontag
The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher… — Janet Burroway
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not… — Ernest Hemingway
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse… — Alan Cohen
The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I… — Linus Pauling
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers… — W. W. Sawyer
Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating? — Doc Holliday
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all… — Bill Parcells
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? — Edward Weston
It completely sickens me what our culture is doing to women. Last week I wore a big top and little shorts and a bunch of… — Lena Dunham
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are… — Mary Ellen Mark
I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That's why I… — Kate Winslet
In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry… — Melissa McCarthy

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