Blitstein Summit Quotes

#1. The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#2. The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

Johann Gottfried Herder

#3. Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Mike McCue

#4. And In the End, the Love We Take Is Equal To the Love We Make.

The Beatles

#5. Forget Not: 1)to be patient with yourself. 2) the difference between good and foolish sacrifices. 3) to be happy NOW. 4) the 'why' of the gospel. 5) the Lord loves you.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#6. When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

John Darnielle

#7. Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

Rutger Hauer

#8. People who say they don't have time, in fact have no plans to do anything.

Chandan Sharma