“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.” IfsThinkingHardStoriesUseOpportunitySocialDealsTechnologyMediaSocial MediaTraditionalPublishersNew TechnologyProactive Author:Ian Rankin
“It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.” PeopleHardMightHappensTodaySocialSecurityBenefitsCriticalSocial SecurityReductionMedicareBack To Work Author:Fred Upton
“Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.” DoeArtHardFactsUseSocialProcessEffortCasesImpossibleSeriousDeserveIdealsTasksTestsFunctionDiscussionConsiderationPropositionsArt And ScienceVerify Book:Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
“It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.” IfsHardCertainSocialClassRightsPridePropertyPrivilegeDebtConvincedConcreteProperty RightsSocial ClassSpecialty Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
“An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.” HardFunnyWinningSocialLossMediaGoldBlameSocial MediaDefenseSwimmingOlympicsMedalAustralianTweetGold MedalsSwimmerLondon Olympics Author:Conan O'Brien
“Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.” ThinkingHardWould BeForceSocialInterestWealthRolesGoneEconomicFashionCapitalismOwnersShedAccordApprovedAnonymityAdverseSocial SystemsConnotationTerminology Author:John Kenneth Galbraith