If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.


John Atkinson

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The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, ...
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Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your fa...
GORDON ATKINSON
See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things...
GORDON ATKINSON
If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru...
GORDON ATKINSON
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whisperin...
GORDON ATKINSON
One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case ...
GORDON ATKINSON
Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.
GORDON ATKINSON
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
GORDON ATKINSON
External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or ev...
GORDON ATKINSON
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
BROOKS ATKINSON
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For ev...
BROOKS ATKINSON
You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
GORDON ATKINSON
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
GORDON ATKINSON
There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with p...
GORDON ATKINSON
This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
GORDON ATKINSON
You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
GORDON ATKINSON
I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot ...
GORDON ATKINSON
I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose ...
GORDON ATKINSON
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or ...
GORDON ATKINSON
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you ...
GORDON ATKINSON
Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
GORDON ATKINSON
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful ...
GORDON ATKINSON
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
GORDON ATKINSON
The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush ...
GORDON ATKINSON
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended perio...
ROWAN ATKINSON
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five yea...
ROWAN ATKINSON
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ...
KATE ATKINSON
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that ...
ROWAN ATKINSON
Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.
RON ATKINSON
I would have proposed more innovative initiatives, but given our benchmark, which was zero, I think ...
ROB ATKINSON
Ideally, who you really want in that position is an entrepreneur who has built a small business into...
ROB ATKINSON
We've been in recently to quite a few creative agencies talking about what we can do from an outdoor...
ROB ATKINSON
We know what techniques work best and what technology people should use for any particular brief.
ROB ATKINSON
Andy Eastwood is our new offensive coach and he's helping us with our man up offense. We had trouble...
ROB ATKINSON
We've had one practice. I gave them Saturday off. We're going to keep doing what we do. You don't ha...
RITA ATKINSON
We need to be patient and move the ball well. We need balance with an inside-outside game. But if we...
RITA ATKINSON
One of the reasons for our success this year is clearly that 13 kids came to practice every day and ...
RITA ATKINSON
She said they're a perimeter team .... They're scrappy, and they push the ball up court on the fast ...
RITA ATKINSON
The guys just come to our gigs to pick up girls, if nothing else.
NICK ATKINSON
But we have just found the more we play live in the UK, the more people have started to talk about o...
NICK ATKINSON
I guess it is better for people to talk about us than not talk about us.
NICK ATKINSON
In the future we'll have to change our name to the Rats or something,
NICK ATKINSON
For me, that was a worry, and I sat down with him and said exactly that, ... But when you talk to so...
NICK ATKINSON