Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.
The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.
Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.
If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.
Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.
Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.
They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.