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QOTD: We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking …

Friday, July 18th, 2008

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein

QOTD: … hang a question mark on things taken for granted

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
— Bertrand Russell

QOTD: Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

Friday, July 4th, 2008

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
— Ben Franklin

QOTD: Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
Lawrence Clark Powell

QOTD: The most original authors …

Monday, May 26th, 2008

“The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

QOTD: … On a given day, I learn something that you didn’t know …

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

I stole this amazing quote from the Facebook of a good friend. I just had to share it.

“For that alone, I can have no regrets. Nah, son, fuck law school. And fuck the M.B.A. I’ll never have. And fuck all that Chaucer and Cervantes and Proust I might never get around to reading. On a given day, I learn something that you didn’t know and then, my authority drawn only from scrawl on pages of a pocket notebook, I write it up clean so the rest of you can get your hands filthy with ink, reading my righteous shit. In the less fevered lobes of my brain, it was as pure as that.”
— David Simon

Simon, btw, is an author and former Baltimore Sun reporter. He’s the brain behind HBO’s The Wire (which I’ve never seen but sounds cool). The quote is from his recent Esquire essay, “A Newspaper Can’t Love You Back,” which is worth the read.

QOTD: If you fell down yesterday, stand up today

Friday, April 4th, 2008

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
— H.G. Wells

This could be interpreted many ways. Since I like to focus on journalism and blogs and all that fun stuff, I’ll throw out this advice to all the reporters and editors who’ve lost their jobs, to all the sell-outs and dreamers deferred who’ve given up and to all the nay-sayers who believe it can’t be done. It’s always worth getting back up to try again.