"You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it."

-- John Medina

#Business Quotes #Attention Quotes #Minutes Quotes

“No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they don't know it. That's largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friend's voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm.”
“Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.”
“In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.243, Hachette UK
“While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her â€“ for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.62, Library of Alexandria
“Girls say they like a sensitive man, but then they complain about my premature ejaculation.”
“Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.”
“All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture....”
“Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.”

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