#nov

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over. ↗

— Seth Godin

#each #face #flies #industrial #innovate

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#novelists #past #present #story #tell

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constraining #dangerous #destructive #dogmatic #innovation

'Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles. ↗

— Gotye

#come #constant #fairly #female #find

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#first #five #four #i #light

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#behind #colleges #community #created #displaced

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#broad #century #class #companies #created

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#does #effects #explain #features #founder

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#doing #easily #finish #i #i write