On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.
I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.
'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.
What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.
Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.
Orang kampung seperti sahaya ini, bendoro muda, kelahirannya sendiri sudah suatu kecelakaan. Tak ada sesuatu yang lebih celaka dari nasib orang kampung.
Bukan aku saja yang tergenggam oleh mereka, mereka sebaliknya pun tergenggam olehku. Genggam-menggenggamlah, kalau tak dapat dikatakan sihir-menyihir.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even remember the recession of 2001, let alone the previous one.
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
