"There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing."

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Source : Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.25, Harper Collins

Francine Prose

#Literature Quotes #Occasions Quotes

“When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.”
“I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy.”
“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
“Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.”
“To say that you have taught when students haven't learned is to say you have sold when no one has bought. But how can you know that students have learned without spending hours correcting tests and papers? . . . check students understanding while you are teaching (not at 10 o'clock at night when you're correcting papers) so you don't move on with unlearned material that can accumulate like a snowball and eventually engulf the student in confusion and despair.”
“I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.”
“Often we can change things, and a realistic attitude - including envisioning worse case scenarios - actually helps to accomplish that change. But if you truly cannot do anything about something, then why on earth would you want to make things even worse for you by falling into despair? It seems like adding a self-inflicting injury to the already existing one.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.”

Source : "Has Narayana Murthy's return at Infosys worked for the IT major?", economictimes.indiatimes.com. December 24, 2013.

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