Margins Quotes - Page 10

• The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

  Julio Cortazar

  Writing, Loss, Perfection

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• There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

  George Santayana

  Book, Hands, Interesting

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

  Tara Bray Smith

  Book, Writing, People

  "Marginalia and Other Crimes". Essay by Tara Bray Smith in a book "Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Time" by Kevin Smokler, www.sfgate.com. 2009.

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• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Travel, Flower

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Horse, Jobs, Book

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• Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

  Thornton Wilder

  Clarity, Consciousness, Pool

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• Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Easter, Book, Angel

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

  Cornel West

  Justice, Love And Trust, Poor

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Book, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving On, Experience, World

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.

  James Surowiecki

  Mean, Competition, Profit Margin

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• Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

  James Surowiecki

  Doors, Order, World

  "After Rana Plaza". www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

  Arnold Bennett

  Firsts, Unexpected, Planning

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• I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.

  Ron Willingham

  Jobs, Integrity, Divorce

  Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

  "Post-crash, investing in a better world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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• It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

  Yuri Milner

  Fundamentals, Lines, Digital

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• For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

  Katharine Anthony

  Mother, Long, Relaxation

  KATHARINE ANTHONY “MOTHERS WHO MUST LEARN”

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• It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sea, Progress, Monsters

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.47, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The margin is very marginal.

  Bobby Robson

  Soccer, Funny Soccer

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• Theres a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasnt a lot of fun.

  Lance Berkman

  Fun, Winning, Errors

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• The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Wall, Distance, Fighting

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• Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one price level and then, later, offer the finished product for sale at a somewhat higher price level. This situation encourages production because it gives confidence of an almost certain profit margin.

  Carroll Quigley

  Mean, Giving, Cost

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

  Benjamin Graham

  Essence, Safety, Unnecessary

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• I like being on the margins. You work better there.

  Billy Childish

  "The Importance of Being Childish". The Times, December 02, 2006.

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