Rob > Rob's Quotes

“Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Podcasts extend the life of a seminar program by making it available to people who couldn’t attend in person. A review of attendance numbers for the New Jersey Bank Marketing Association’s quarterly seminars shows that attendance did not diminish when audio podcasts (and later, video podcasts) became available from the programs. In fact, it actually increased.”
― Steve Lubetkin, The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional

“First there is the 10-second war: can you do something in your first moments on stage to ensure people’s eager attention while you set up your talk topic? Second is the 1-minute war: can you then use that first minute to ensure that they’re committed to coming on the full talk journey with you?”
― Chris J. Anderson, TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

“I can’t say that exhaustive research and reporting will guarantee a great story, but I’ve never been able to pull one off without it.”
― Deborah Blum, A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers

“Every season is the Season for us. The apocalypse that never ends. They could’ve chosen a different kind of equality. We could’ve all been safe and comfortable together, surviving together, but they didn’t want that. Now nobody gets to be safe. Maybe that’s what it will take for them to finally realize things have to change.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“that’s half our problem now: we’re not willing to admit that the definition of ‘normal humanity’ has changed. We keep fighting to preserve a reality that’s already long gone, and maybe never existed in the first place.”
― N.K. Jemisin, Initiation

“Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.”
― Douglas Coupland, JPod