"The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.”
“Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard”
“How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!”
“Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.”
“Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact index to a man's true character. All through Scripture there is an intimate correlation between the development of a man's character and how he handles his money.”
“And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.”
“The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.”
“Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called 'typing.' Typing is an activity ... Writing is a process. And if you start thinking of it as a process, life gets so much easier.”

Source : Jeff Bollow (2004). “Writing FAST: How to Write Anything with Lightning Speed”, p.15, Embryo Films

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