Category: writer
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The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you’re studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
Simon Sinek
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf
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I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
Alice Walker
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
Marianne Williamson
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot
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I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.
Alice Walker
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‘Don’t try.’ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.
Charles Bukowski
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If you’re going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
Zadie Smith