"No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, Onward toward mediocrity."

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Source : "A Conversation with Martin de Maat". The Monthly Aspectarian, August 1998.

Martin de Maat

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“You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something about voice, about urgency, about actually having a story to tell.”

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“Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.”
“Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.”
“Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?”
“Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.”
“The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.”
“we know the art of success; never forget”
“Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other.”

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