"the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse"

-- John Knowles

#Tone Quotes #Separate Peace Quotes #Force Quotes

“I'm working in my mind.”
“If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.”
“It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell (1954). “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.”
“Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.”

Source : "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.
“In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.”
“The one charm of the past is that it is the past.”
“Wonder Showzen was one of the first shows that realized each sketch, each segment is essentially one joke, and, once you know what the joke is, it's time to move on.”

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