Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.
You know I, I just think, that ah, things have a way of working themselves out.
Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
We had pastors testifying in favor of gun control. And they were quoting the Bible, too, for it. And there were no pastors on the other side testifying against gun control. . . I had to literally open up my Bible and read scripture to these pastors in a hearing in Olympia. A politician had to read scripture to pastors.
Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.
If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.
Live dangerously and you live right.
Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
When did you get all insightful?" he asked. "I have no idea," Josh admitted. "I don't like it. " "Me, either. Makes me feel like a girl. Don't tell anyone. " (Ethan and Josh)
The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted
There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.