Community Quote by Guy Kawasaki Download Open image “It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.” — Guy Kawasaki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Hard Mediocre Mundane Writing
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication. — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Writing is hard. It takes commitment and determination and a good part talent. It's not an afterthought, an addendum - it's a career. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a writer. It… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule…use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
At the end of my life, I want to say that I made the world a better place because I raised good children, loved… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The record of what you do is forever recoverable because of Google. The lofty upside and scary downside makes reciprocity more important than ever.… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was… — Umair Haque Copy Share
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at… — Donna Freitas Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
