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“Design cannot rescue failed content.”

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Edward Tufte is a renowned statistician known for his contributions to information design, data visualization, and visual presentation. His work has had a profound impact on modern data presentation and communication. more

“I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Feelings Home Faces Situation Known Awareness Cry Tears Cold British Your Face Scream Interfere Heartbroken Well Mannered Awareness Of Others

Author:Michael Caine

“Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.”

Thinking Want Writing Heart Hands Walks Written Hair Notes Storm I Want You Written Word Dripping Eyelids

Book:Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

Source: Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

“We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.”

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food

“Never hurry and never worry!”

Worry

Book:The Letters of E. B. White

Source: The Letters of E. B. White

“I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.”

Enemy

Author:Stephen King

“Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.”

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

“Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.”

Years Sometimes Seems Opposites Cynical

Book:Epic Fail

Source: Epic Fail

“I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.”

Secret Type

Book:Tales of Ordinary Madness

Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness

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