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Wed 19 Feb 2020

Selling

Posted by PJ under accountability, marketing, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“It seems to me that all this yapping about writers selling themselves to Hollywood or the slicks or some transient propaganda idea, instead of writing sincerely from the heart about what they see around them,—the people who make this kind of complaint, and that includes practically every critic who takes himself seriously, overlook the point (I don’t see how they can, but they do) that no writer ever in any age got a blank check. He always had to accept some conditions imposed from without, respect certain taboos, try to please certain people.”

—Raymond Chandler, letter to Charles Morton, 28 October 1947

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 14 Jul 2017

Consequences

Posted by PJ under accountability, consequences, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“A lot of human behavior is based on the belief that consequences always happen to someone else.”

—James A. Hetley, Twitterfeed, 10/12/12

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 8 Nov 2016

Wrong!

Posted by PJ under accountability, mistakes, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“No persons are more frequently wrong than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 386, Maxims

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Tue 9 Aug 2016

Steps

Posted by PJ under accountability, projects, quote of the day, work
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Random quote of the day:

“Most people engaged on a project which is going wrong will prefer to walk off the cliff than bother to raise the alarm.”

—Alain de Botton, Twitter, 9/11/11

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 7 Jun 2016

Tracks

Posted by PJ under accountability, mistakes, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We tend to keep going down the wrong track to spare ourselves the humiliation and fear of acknowledging all that wasted time.”

—Alain de Botton, Twitter, August 23, 2011

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Mon 25 Apr 2016

Fibrous

Posted by PJ under accountability, action and activism, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Ye cannot live only for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along these fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.”

—Henry Melvill, “Partaking in Other Men’s Sin,” Golden Lectures

(This quote is often paraphrased and misattributed to Herman Melville.)

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Fri 18 Mar 2016

Blame game

Posted by PJ under accountability, projection, quote of the day, responsibility
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Random quote of the day:

“There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.”

—Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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