Here is another slew of quotes to ponder, many from the Bob Sacks media newsletter.
Craft
"An artist’s limits are quite as important as his powers. They are definite assets, not a deficiency, and go to form his flavor and personality." Willa Cather
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson
"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Carl Sagan
"Act with the authority of your 16 billion years." Joanna Macy
"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess." Edna Woolman Chase
Reading
"A book ought to be an ax to break the frozen sea within us." Franz Kafka
"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget." William Lyon Phelps
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." G. K. Chesterton
"We can spend our whole lives fishing only to discover in the end it wasn't fish we were after." Henry David Thoreau
Thinking Better
"I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Albert Einstein (attributed)
"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality." Norman Douglas
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance." Plato
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." Paul Dirac
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." Poul Anderson
Bearing the Business
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." Winston Churchill
"Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community." Simon Mainwaring
"An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures." Henry Petroski
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill
"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny." Frederick William Robertson
Living a Life
"I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?" Ronnie Shakes
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." Groucho Marx
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