"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion."

-- George Santayana

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“My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.”
“You're pissed I laid it out and you're gonna go nurse your snit”
“Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.”
“Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.”

Source : "Continuous Feedback" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.
“It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”
“I've always laughed at the term "female director" or even "black director." A director's a director.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.”

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