"The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'"

-- Peter Drucker

#Decision Quotes #Makers Quotes #Situation Quotes

“I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.”
“I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.”
“We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and what is merely cultural scrap. In such a society, we don't have the experience of contemplative space, of the time or mood to engage a book of poetry or even read a novel. Who can achieve the unconscious-conscious state of the reader when everything is stimulation, everything is movement and information?”
“Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris”
“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.”
“When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams.”
“No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless”
“People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”

Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.110, Scholastic Inc.

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