#business

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now? ↗

— David Mamet

#film #writing #business

They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#simplicity #business

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. ↗

— Harper Lee

#god #hatred #judgement #religion #business

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#business

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it ↗

— John Lennon

#music #business

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#name-calling #business

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them. ↗

— Harold S. Kushner

#business

Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me. Ella: If you think you can do it without getting lost. ↗

— Melissa Lemon

#humorous #melissa-lemon #romantic #smartass #business

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#sarcasm #business

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future. ↗

— Paul Orfalea

#leadership #management #business