"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."

-- Edward Hopper

“Perhaps the old fogies in the blogosphere get that way because, well, we stop taking the whole megillah so seriously. And we can't take it seriously because, well, this isn't our primary means of employment and never will be. Once the blogosphere is run by sufficient numbers of people who are paid to blog, us enlightened amateurs just look semi-pro.”
“Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and The Firm of the Future, Ron Baker has again evolved thought leadership on the critical dynamics of value and pricing. Baker's latest work, Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value, provides real-world examples and practical strategies that provide a framework for pricing optimization. His clarity of purpose and passionate call to action resonates in today's intellectual capital economy.”
“You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.”

Source : "This Is The Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. November 25, 2013.
“I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.”

Source : Hedda Hopper (2017). “From Under My Hat”, p.24, Graymalkin Media
“In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence”
“Of course, I got hurt, but I was never afraid.”
“I've come to appreciate other people's talents.”

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