“There is a moment in a sales pitch when an arm around the shoulder or a hand on the back will help swing the deal. . . But you must know that moment! Try it too soon and you kill the deal—too late and you’ve lost your opportunity.” Julius...
“We move through our career stiffly, step by step like in a Noh play with masks, shrieking song: Me, it’s Me! Whoever’s defeated is represented by a rolled-up blanket.” Tomas Tranströmer, The Gallery Hello. How’s everybody...
THE QUIET MAN (1952) A retired American boxer returns to the village where he was born in Ireland, where he finds love. SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949) Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian...
“I never wanted to be well-rounded, and I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut...