John B Inspirational Quotes (9)

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.

Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.

In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.

You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

And pray, who are you? Said the Violet blue To the Bee, with surprise, At his wonderful size, In her eyeglass of dew. I, madam, quoth he, Am a publican Bee, Collecting the tax Of honey and wax. Have you nothing for me?

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?

A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh.