#you

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to. ↗

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

#change #retrospect #young-adult #change

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you. ↗

— Clive Davis

#opportunity #presented #seize #you

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#graduation #growth #insight #maturity #teenager

Remember, you are the same today as you will be in five years, except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Choose both carefully. ↗

— Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

#change #remember #you-are #change

It was part of your religion to hate the British. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#hate #part #religion #your

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#captain #driving #find #foremost #heart

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#go #good #good way #heart #letter

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#chicks #fight #five #get #hire

The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many... somethings. So, thanks. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#communication

With the explosion of technology over the last 15+ years, we are in the process of a complete paradigm shift in regards to how we communicate in our marketing, public relations and advertising. Social Media has forever changed the way businesses and customers communicate and the beauty of it is that, through your channels, you can reach your audience directly and at lightning speed. Social Media has also changed the way customers make their buying decisions. Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, have made it easy to find and connect with others who share similar interests, to read product reviews and to connect with potential clients. Within these networks there is an amazing and wide open space for your unique voice to be heard. As the web interacts with us in more personal ways and with greater portability, there is no time better than the present to engage with and rally your community. ↗

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#book-power #engage-your-tribe #kytka #social-media-for-authors #beauty