"Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better."

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Peter Drucker

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“Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.”

Source : "Women in Design: Kelly Wearstler". Interview with Mayer Rus, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
“Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.”
“Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)”
“I’m gone for eight months…If you feel that it’s critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution.”
“Chicken's good. I like chicken.”
“[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind.”

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