Quote by Leslie Jamison Download Open image ““Why do I hunger for significant barometers but find myself tethered to banality instead?”” — Leslie Jamison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If you limit your goals to what you know you can achieve, you are setting the bar way too low.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“the opposite effect, of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A person doesn't consciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“When you are hungry for something, you often do not use your best judgment.” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to avoid falling prey to the demands that others make, especially if what they want is different from your choices or… — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“I have not quite come to terms with the brevity that people crave as they dash through life, flitting from one thing to another.… — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
“We each make our solo voyages to deep, expansive waters. Alone in our contest with the wider world, we test our mettle and seek… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose, therefore I demand of myself persistent, aggressive and… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools,… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind at all:… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“I obsessed, and told myself this obsession was empathy. But it wasn't, quite. It was more like inpathy. I wasn't expatriating myself into another… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
12-step recovery is very focused on abstinence, and that's bled into the broader understanding of treatment. It would be most useful to have multiple… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
