Food for thought, but with a pinch of salt
As George Bernard Shaw once said: 'Never take anybody's advice'. So ignore the following:
"No matter where you are, no matter how much of the company's money you are spending, repeat to yourself over and over: 'This is nothing more than I deserve'."
A. M. Rosenthal, journalist.
"Malfeasance."
Columnist William Safire, advising on what message to leave if you want an elusive big shot to return your call.
"Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty."
Casanova.
"Insincere flattery is more flattering than sincere flattery. The less someone means what they say, the greater the compliment."
Michael Kinsley, editor.
"Women can stand on the Empire State Building and scream to the heavens that they're equal to men and liberated, but until they have the same anatomy, it's a lie. It's more of a man's world today than ever. Men can eat their cake in unlimited bakeries."
Mum
"The best way to get over a crush is to focus on his least flattering light. With one guy, I thought of the time I saw him in a denim tuxedo."
Jane Mayer, New York writer.
'Amused disdain."
Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times' Rome bureau chief, on appropriate demeanour after any humiliation.
"It's not what you give. It's what you don’t give."
Abramson's aunt, Lillian Goldsmith.
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get less than you settled for."
Me.
"Jump on it before it's not there to jump on."
Adrienne Washington, columnist.
"Linda, if I ever have an affair with a married man, especially if he's a president, shoot me."
Monica Lewinsky.
"Never have dinner in a revolving restaurant."
Jack Germond, journalist.
"The road to excellence has no speed limits."
Me.
"Are you not destroying your enemies when you make friends of them?"
Abraham Lincoln
What I believe the HSC to be is a race. The HSC course covers a lot of ground and at school, we are fed with new concepts daily. Every night, we have to digest these new concepts through study. If we decide to leave the undigested concepts to amount, indigestion results and you'll be in the pits. (Antacid-less)
Drifting Lodestar
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