17 Quotes & Sayings By Bryn Hammond

Bryn Hammond is a Canadian author, motivational speaker and radio personality. He is best known for his bestselling autobiography, "The Imperfectionists," which chronicles his time as an employee at the Wall Street Journal editorial desk and his nine-year tenure as editor-in-chief of the newspaper's weekend edition. As a journalist and speaker, he was named one of Canada's top ten motivational speakers by Maclean's Magazine in 2012. "The Imperfectionists" has since become a New York Times bestseller and is translated into eleven languages Read more

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People, and boys the worst, are so much more intelligent than what comes out of their mouths. Bryn Hammond
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Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation. Bryn Hammond
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The glue between the horn that pushes and the sinew that pulls. The glue gets ignored, but you know, Ahai, up to half of a bow is glue. I suspect Ogodoi is the son I can least afford to lose. Bryn Hammond
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The animals haven't split apart into what they think and what they feel. They are whole and trust in their instincts. Bryn Hammond
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In the rare air of that altitude he forgot he was he. One way or another that was the aim of life. Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes. Bryn Hammond
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Tchingis, if you determine this is to be so, who can withstand you? You are poetry after an ugly day, and heal wounds I didn't know I had. Bryn Hammond
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Such coincidences were the rhymes that God wrote into fate, his chords of music. Bryn Hammond
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Perceptions? Yesugei didn't give a goat's toenail about perceptions, but society was society....'Who gives a billy's balls what one or two wives have to say?'' Quite, father.' This was strong language, to cite the nether parts, stronger than toenails. Bryn Hammond
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He only knows a single thing to clasp, that like God can't be split up into pieces: our honesty to one another. Bryn Hammond
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Temujin had had not the slightest notion that bad emotion can just grow and grow from inside you and squeeze out the universe. Bryn Hammond
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I am a neighbour king to stretch my branches over him, just as Toghrul sheltered me when I was a weed-stalk next to a strong tree. Bryn Hammond
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Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips. Bryn Hammond
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Besides, they cast an eye to the past, they didn't disgrace the ground they trod and they believed in the future again. That's what a victory does for you. Bryn Hammond
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For a few heady weeks of the year the steppe in a binge throws out a wilderness of flowers that tangle your hooves and confuse your horse. Bryn Hammond
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And I saw you and I thought, she'd be a cosy fit inside my arm. Bryn Hammond
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Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother. Bryn Hammond