"Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy."

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Nathan Lowell

#Littles Quotes #Narrative Quotes #Pubs Quotes

“Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.”
“Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.”
“Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.”
“The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration.”

Source : "The Wikification of Knowledge". www.pcmag.com. July 11, 2005.
“For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.”
“The feeling of betrayal by the friend you trust”
“The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.”
“In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.”

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