"Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other."

-- Robert K. Greenleaf

#Laughter Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Twins Quotes

“Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.”
“Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.”
“The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.”
“Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.”
“When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.”
“Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.”
“Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.”
“Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.”

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