#pub

Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long. ↗

— John McGahern

#publishing #reading #business

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#filling #formerly #innovations #involved #maintaining

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#privacy #public-image #secrecy #life

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. ↗

— George Crane

#life #public #life

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#altogether #biological #boundaries #bypass #dna

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power. (Žižek, S. "Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks." London Review of Books 33.2 (2011): 9-10. ) ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#philosophy #political-science #public #wikileaks #age

Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, I think everybody can agree that politicians are crooks. But I don’t think politicians are thieves, because you can’t steal what you’ve been given. Once we stop giving in, they’ll stop taking.
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— Jarod Kintz

#politicians #politics #republicans #change

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#campaign #conventional #conventional wisdom #deal #dynamic

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#created #employed #how #longer #many

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way… ↗

— Paul Arden

#perfectionism #public-speaking #true-to-life #inspirational