"A cop told me, a long time ago, that thereâ€™s no substitute for knowing what youâ€™re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones thatâ€™re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it."

-- George V. Higgins

#Silly Quotes #Writing Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”
“The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.”
“It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.”
“Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!”
“For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs.”
“One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.”
“Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'”
“It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.”

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