"Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to……" — Tobias Wolff
"Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it."
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52 Quotes by Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff has 52 quotes on this site.
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power…
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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It…
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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess,…
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find…
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More Fearlessness Quotes
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to…
— Aristotle
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
— Harold Brodkey
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The key to change... is to let go of fear.
— Rosanne Cash
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
— Paulo Coelho
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To all of you I should like to say that in the course of this war you will have to…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many…
— Nastia Liukin
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Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to…
— Arianna Huffington
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There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent…
— Arianna Huffington
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Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.
— Vince Lombardi
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To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion,…
— Eknath Easwaran
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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or…
— Ben Harper
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