"When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens."

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Source : "The Freaks shall Inherit the Earth, an interview with Chris Brogan". Interview with Martin Shervington, www.plusyourbusiness.com. May 16, 2014.

Chris Brogan

#Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes #Support Quotes

“Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard, and it sort of opened my eyes. I didn't really know anything about it, but it opened my eyes to a possible next step after school, where I could just deepen my knowledge and also not be responsible for life and stay in school.”
“The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction.”
“There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.”
“And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.”
“He also said that if anyone did anything to mess up the rest of the testing, he was going to call 911 personally. Yeah, like that wouldn't make it into the nightly news again: WHEELCHAIR-BOUND CANCER PATIENT ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH.”
“We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.”
“Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.”
“When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.”

Source : Wright Morris (1968). “A Bill of Rites, a Bill of Wrongs, a Bill of Goods”, [New York] : New American Library

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