Education and marketing are two sides of the same coin. Propaganda is the edge. #life #failure

People hate when you ignore or shrug off their insults. #life #success

If your mind wanders, set it free. #life #success

Letting the cat out of the bag is the humane thing to do. #cat #life

Things you name applies a mental and perceptual filter to those things, obscuring the reality. #life #tao

Whenb one believes what one is told, thought has been subverted. #life #failure

If you think starting is hard, then you’ve never written anything. Stopping is much harder. #writing #life

Remember when people had bookshelves full of encyclopaedias, but never read them? #life #failure

“If you don’t stand up for what you believe, you really don’t believe.” #writing #life

Do you smile in a group photo because someone says, “Smile!”? Or are you the grumpy one? #life #character #writing

Back in my day, I used Compuserve, Delphi, and AOL. Now? I don’t use anything because it uses me. #life #failure #technology

What’s the silliest part of your life? Do you enjoy it or the silliness? #life

Humans align other humans to themselves. Rarely, do they align with others, unless they want something. #life #failure

How many friends are too many? How many enemies are too many? Which would you rather have? Would you rather have friends or people who are loyal to you? #life

Justification isn’t ability or permission. #life

Dread comes from the imagination. #life #writing

Absolutism and certainty are failure. #life

How many years do you have left? How many successes and failures will you experience in that time? Will you do something about it or just accept what comes? #life

“If you can’t change, bend, or adapt, you are old and brittle. Your strength lies in certainty. You will break and fail.” #life

If you can’t stand someone, that says more about you than the persons you can’t stand. #life #failure

With enough anger, action ensues. Too bad it’s usually the wrong action. #life #failure

Experience is great, but it sometimes blinds you to new experiences and better ways of solving problems. #life #success #failure

If you back down from your values, they aren’t things you value. #life

Talent only gets you so far. #life

If you are certain of something, make sure that thing is fact, not belief. It’s all well and good to be certain of your beliefs, but you must understand and acknowledge their limitations. #life #failure