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Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'


Jennifer Weiner

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ERIC WEINER Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.
ERIC WEINER Studies have found that creative people have an especially high tolerance for ambiguity. I suspect t...
ERIC WEINER This less-is-more phenomenon holds true not only for individuals but for entire nations. A good exam...
ERIC WEINER There’s a simple reason for this. The more shots you get at the target, the more likely you’ll e...
ERIC WEINER See what is before you, the thing itself. Analyze later.
ERIC WEINER Nothing kills creativity faster than a wall.
ERIC WEINER When people from similar backgrounds get together, are isolated from dissenting views, and are tryin...
ERIC WEINER Cosimo was the Bill Gates of his day. He spent the first half of his life making a fortune and the s...
ERIC WEINER British philosopher Alan Watts observed, a sense of wonder “distinguishes men from other animals, ...
ERIC WEINER Civic life, though, was not optional, and Aristotle tells me the Athenians had a word for those who ...
ERIC WEINER All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the s...
ERIC WEINER One of the biggest misperceptions about places of genius, I’m discovering, is that they are akin t...
ERIC WEINER If you’ve ever had a rational thought or asked Why? or gazed at the night sky in silent wonder, th...
ERIC WEINER We are at our most creative when we have something to push against. Creativity does not require perf...
ÉRIC WEINER The story of the world is not the story of coups and revolutions. It is the story of lost keys and b...
ERIC WEINER What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
ERIC WEINER We've made a lot of progress, but we also know there may be further problems, and we're going to wor...
GLEN WEINER In some cases it's true that our Web and our processing systems are out of sync as we work to update...
GLEN WEINER We've made a lot of progress, but we still have more to do. We're current with most of our transacti...
GLEN WEINER Our conversion schedule is proceeding as planned. As part of that plan we took a break in January to...
GLEN WEINER ..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience...
ERIC WEINER Maybe happiness is this: not feeling that you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someo...
ERIC WEINER We thought all four had great opportunities, and that's the result of their tremendous careers here,...
ROBERT WEINER Her various health issues severely limit what she could do even if she was seeking employment and ag...
JASON WEINER The video made it fairly clear that my client and several other kids are standing around. He never l...
JASON WEINER I like bread, and I like butter - but I like bread with butter best.
SARAH WEINER We try to get the parent to step back from their emotions and help them figure out the outcome they ...
IVOR WEINER All that information is put in one place that's easy to access and in an organized fashion so that t...
IVOR WEINER