"Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed natural world, often with a trace of loss and always patrolled by unmistakable decency. He is a master of this form..."

-- Doug Peacock

#Loss Quotes #Track Quotes #World Quotes

“Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.”
“Invest in creating the right culture and you won't be disappointed in the results.”

Source : Kay Koplovitz (2014). “Been There, Run That”, p.165, RosettaBooks
“Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.”
“Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.”
“Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.”
“The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse. If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient-or just plain happier-the industrial designer has succeeded.”
“The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.”
“My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.”

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