Macksey Symposium Quotes & Sayings

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence. — Benjamin Franklin

Making money is intelligence;
saving money is wisdom.
Squandering money is imprudence;
Sharing money is virtue. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments? — Les Wexner

BASED is how you feel inside. — Brandon McCartney

The single biggest reason why the vast majority of people go nowhere in life is because they don't or won't take risks. They take the easy way out, the path of least resistance. You don't make it big that way. Ever. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

On Sunday at St St. Andrews in 2005, Tiger woke up with a two-stroke lead, and his warm-up on the practice range was freakishly good. He'd comment later that it was one of the best of his life. He hit the 50-yard sign four times in a row, the 100-yard sign three times in a row, and the 150-yard sign on his first shot. I jokingly told Steve that on shots around 100 yards he should remind Tiger to aim right or left of the pin. Sure enough, on the third hole Tiger's wedge hit the pin and bounced off the green. — Hank Haney

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.
[Ten rules for writing fiction (The Guardian, 20 February 2010)] — Helen Dunmore

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum. — Anne Rice