"Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't……" — Jasper Fforde
"Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough."
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159 Quotes by Jasper Fforde
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we…
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[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr.…
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People don't change just because you know more about them.
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Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for…
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Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a…
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
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We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
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So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went…
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
— Zengzi
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All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that…
— Sun Tzu
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Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it…
— David Hilbert
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As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set…
— Thomas Merton
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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn…
— Ernest Gaines
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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to…
— Arsene Wenger
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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that…
— Gautama Buddha
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In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do…
— Unknown Author
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The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life.
— Paulo Coelho
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