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“There are recurring patterns that show up again and again in big ideas that have spread, to indicate that they require some attention-getting wow factor, some audacious proposition, before we pay attention.”

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Book:Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
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“We’re swimming in an ocean of information like none of our ancestors before us. And this access to abundant sources of data presents a mixed blessing. There is so much competing information, both trivial and significant.”

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“The names of those who have influenced our ideas tell a story in themselves: who they were, when and where they lived, what their contribution to the great ongoing conversation was or is.”

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“If you have an idea worth spreading, you don’t need permission from anybody to spread it. If you have an idea worth spreading, the reliable research, data and definitions can be added later. If you have an idea worth spreading, you can sound it out with some loyal friends and let them remind you how much hard-won experience you’ve racked up—how many thousands of hours in deliberate practice.”

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“The story of Blue 52 roaming the oceans, singing its own deep-sea version of a high lonesome, has struck a nerve with a great many individuals. And it’s no wonder. Its loneliness touches the loneliness we sometimes feel when we’re sending signals into the void.”

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“We encounter ideas through the prism of our own lived experience and because of this a good argument can be made that we best understand big ideas when they’re presented through the same personal prism.”

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“On any given day, if I conduct a new search, I find additional posts referencing my name.”

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Book:Go Viral!: The Social Media Secret to Get Your Name Posted and Shared All Over the World!
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“... Old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers,'" I said softly to myself. From behind me, Conner laughed. "If anyone is acting strangely here, it's you. This is a real '"'Tis," replied Aunt Helga' moment you're in." I'd been quoting Truman Capote's classic In Cold Blood; trust my brother to answer with a reference to one of our favorite Simpsons episodes when we were kids.”

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Book:Love in the Time of Serial Killers
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“Social media has been the largest platform on the internet to disperse optical illusions that we have seen thus far. GOD forbid there become more... with editing capabilities, photoshop, filters, CGI, AI, green screens, backdrops which are all available when curating, crafting to create and alter whatever reality you want. Yet Social media is the place where people choose to come and go, for information about you. Make that make sense.”

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Book:Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
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“Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response. No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to see the papers, and when I did not answer fast enough -- they were very frightening, you see -- they hurt me so that I was not awake. . . . When I opened my eyes they were still trying to find the papers. They did not understand how we organize the library, you see. They were angry and creating a bad mess. . . . The police were coming and the men decided they must leave. I shouted at them as they left: 'It is a free and public library! All you had to do was ask!”

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Book:The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
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“So, putting my faith in other passengers who told me it was definitely going to the city, I boarded a bus and spent well over an hour standing, swaying and trying to look out of the window to guess where we were. Traffic was solid, as expected. When we moved, we crawled. Eventually the bus reached somewhere that seemed significant – at least, somewhere a lot of people were getting off – and, sure enough, I was in the city, and there were taxis. The wrong side of the city, as it transpired, so a long taxi ride ensued. Nearly four hours from leaving the factory to reaching the hotel. I wasn’t doing that again.”

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Book:There's No Business Like International Business: Business Travel – But Not As You Know It
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“Suddenly, ahead of us, a group of men ran out of the forest and pulled a thick rope across the road. There was no time to look at them properly, but they didn’t look friendly. I still don’t know why, but my reflex reaction was to foot the accelerator and drive straight through – never a good idea on a dirt track, except perhaps for rally drivers. I’m not sure who was more surprised, me or them, but I found myself looking in the rear-view mirror and seeing men lying on the road, I suppose pulled down by the force of the rope.”

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Book:There's No Business Like International Business: Business Travel – But Not As You Know It
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“I read a quote from Absalom, Absalom! It's a reference to some of the plants that have already lost their blooms: "...and you said North Mississippi is a little harder country than Louisiana, with dogwood and violets and the early scentless flowers, but the earth and the nights still a little cold and the hard, tight sticky buds... on Judas trees and beech and maple...you find that you have been wanting that pretty hard for some time..." In his story Faulkner may have been suggesting a lustful want for the maiden Judith Sutpen, but I take it another direction. As hard as Mississippi can be, I realize now I have indeed been wanting that pretty hard for some time. If only I had known to avoid the wisteria. Instead, I said no when I should have said yes; said yes when I should have said no---and that mistake has nearly choked the life from me.”

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“Matrona felt too old to be a grandmother, an irony that made her laugh when she said it. The girls didn’t listen, and half defeated her each time she tried to give an order. Nonetheless, for one feeling the power of symbols, something was afoot in the landing of the whale. Her own grandmother told history in terms of such visits from strangers. Things usually didn’t turn out well. The story of conquests was old yet powerful. “Something will change now,” she told the girls, working a needle through the canvas.”

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Author:Naomi Klouda
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