"Humans simply arenâ€™t moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion. The best way to emotionally connect other people to our agenda begins with â€œOnce upon a time"

-- Jonathan Gottschall

#Data Quotes #People Quotes #Once Upon A Time Quotes

“Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.”

Source : Thornton Wilder (1961). “Twayne's United States Authors Series”
“The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?”
“I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.”

Source : Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.
“Content will become more important than navigation. Content is the 'there' of navigation. It is the reason people go on the Net.”
“Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.”

Source : Quinn Cummings (2012). “The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling”, p.20, Penguin
“And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.”
“I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You deny it. Max Roach, who, of course, played with him on all those EmArcy recordings, held a concert in Baltimore for Clifford long after Clifford died. Max was still disbelieving so many years later. The concert was supposed to bring closure. But Max was so outrageously emotional that day. He had quite a few eruptions and was very emotional about what had happened so many years earlier. Like everyone, he remained disbelieving.”

Source : "Helen Merrill (Part 3)". Interview with Marc Myers, www.jazzwax.com. February 4, 2009.
“I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos--you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life instead of just wandering into a tattoo parlor on some idle Sunday and saying, 'I feel like I should have one of these suckers by now. I'll take a thorny rose and a "MOM" anchor, please. No, not that one--the big one.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.120, Penguin

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