"I have the feeling that the magazine can reach many more people than it reaches and has something to offer that not everyone knows who should know it. That's why we're starting an app, and that's why we do the blog. But editorially, I think it's mainly a matter of keeping your eyes peeled. You just really don't know what's going to come along."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Lorin Stein

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.”
“Why play a chord when you can play one note?”
“The United States should.... avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests.”
“Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.20, Macmillan
“There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. No reason at all. I do not know one person in the National Front who committed even the most minor hostile act against a Jewish person or Jewish property. As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. There just are people, organizations, that need an adversary and they want the public to believe that this adversary is dangerous.”
“If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.”
“If you dont measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?”
“I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.”

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