"I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Running Quotes #Communication Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was meâ€”projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give â€˜em what they never knew they wanted.”
“My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.”
“I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham, the new data on the First Vision, etc.... It would tend to devastate the Church if a top leader were to announce the facts.”
“Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.”
“Collaboration gets me excited.”
“It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.”
“I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.”
“While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people trying to stick stories into tight, well-defined marketing niches. It can, admittedly, be a tricky balancing act, but I believe the key is to be able to step back and take a long hard look at what you do well, what makes your work different from other writers, what feels the most natural to you when you're writing.”

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