I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you’re poking fun at someone or something, there’s still an affection for it. Bob Newhart Read Quote
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game. Jenny Frost Read Quote
Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I’m used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone. Svetlana Alexievich Read Quote
You have to give people more than one chance. We hire people in job A, and if it doesn’t work out, we try them on job B. We’ll generally give them three different tries. You have to be more committed to training, but you know they have the right stuff because someone you think highly of has recommended them. Howard Lutnick Read Quote
When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and ‘Star Treks’ or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives. Ed Asner Read Quote
While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free. Douglas Rushkoff Read Quote
It’s fashionable to use terms like ‘sales funnels’ to describe the sales process for many companies, and it is true that the funnel design is very appropriate for the digital world, but despite all the prose written on sales funnels and the like, my question is still the same – when do you close your sales, and how long does that take? Michael Gerber Read Quote
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? Orson F. Whitney Read Quote
If I ever uttered one word that I said in ‘Kick-Ass’, I would be grounded for years! I’d be stuck in my room until I was 20! I would never in a million years say that. Chloe Grace Moretz Read Quote
