#mark

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#bed #book #changed #congenial #corporate

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #finding #four #great #i

'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#almost #antarctica #around #boat #circumstances

The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset. ↗

— Primo Angeli

#characteristics #designer #discovering #marketable #most

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#broadly #embedded #ensure #global #global market

Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#day #decisions #economies #every #every day

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#appropriate #bank #central #central bank #chance

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#cease #compromises #could #fact #facts

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#fragility #importance #individual #individual life #life

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#bear #been #before #continued #could