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When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. ↗

— Don Bluth

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You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#capital #every #goal #highest #human

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business. ↗

— Don Bluth

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