"Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy."

-- John P. Kotter

#Tools Quotes #World Quotes #Fuzzy Quotes

“Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.”
“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.”
“I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less”
“I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.”
“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”
“Evolution is a fairy tale for adults”
“You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings â€“ those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page â€“ but go back and look at them with a very beady eye. Almost always it turns out that they'd be better dead. (Not every little twinge of satisfaction is suspect â€“ it's the ones which amount to a sort of smug glee you must watch out for.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.”

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