Maria Konnikova At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author’s work. But we also can’t ignore a writer’s express wish just because we don’t happen to agree with it. – Maria Konnikova Agree Quotes Authors Quotes Embrace Quotes Express Quotes Happen Quotes Ignore Quotes Love Quotes Writers Quotes In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or mishear a line as something more colorful than it was. Of course, authors can still burn their manuscripts – but once something is out in the world, especially if it ever saw the digital light of day, it’s harder and harder to call it back.
LearningYuval Noah Harari Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon, this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning throughout their lives and to reinvent themselves repeatedly. – Yuval Noah Harari
Floyd Skloot Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression – these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose. – Floyd Skloot
Jason Calacanis I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk. – Jason Calacanis
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