Thinking

Saw an interesting little table in New Internationalist October 2008. It answers the question of why, despite billions of dollars in aid, poor countries keep getting poorer. For example, although we talk about foreign aid so much, it’s actually not…

“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” – Eddie Cantor

“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.” – William Faulkner (seen in The New Writer magazine)

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” – Orson Scott Card (seen in The New Writer magazine)

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten – happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.” Brenda Ueland