“GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.” WritingPersonsCharacterFeelingsScienceFoundEnergyProcessDifferencesResultsEmotionalHumourDegreesPaperIntellectualBirdFairsMethodVariousAccurateInsignificantSuppliesOccultGeeseIngeniousThoughts And FeelingsFowlQuills Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.” PeopleArtistGrowsDifferencesEnvyCirclesEsteemInequalityDestructiveOverwhelmingFeedingInsignificantEmulate Author:Alexander Theroux
“I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.” EndsDifferencesRateCompetitorsDistributionInsignificantBaffled Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.” PersonsEnergyDifferencesPowerfulDeterminationWeakConvincedInvisibleInsignificant Author:Charles Buxton