Blogging Quotes

Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you post online can be taken out of context if you are not careful in the way your message is delivered.

Everyone is either building an audience or being an audience these days. Someone, somewhere in the world is thinking up content that will appeal to you as you read this. You are someone’s target audience.

Human beings are complex information consumers: they have active needs, passions, and preferences. They lead different lifestyles — some that you will never be able to empathize with unless you dive deep in qualitative and quantitative data. And that is precisely the point of persona research.

Personally, I believe in tools that close the gap between professionals and beginners, understanding that — push comes to shove — this is a world of beginners.

Some creators shy away from systems because they seem overpowering and rigid. However, in reality, strong systems are the only way in which you will ever have time and space for flexibility. This is true for content production, business, and many other areas of life.

Scale yourself. Go beyond what you can do and what you know. Look at your content machine and make it work nonstop, seamlessly, and at scale with or without you.

Och, lass. Yer going to have to not do that.” Faolán exhaled. “Creeping up on a man is a dangerous thing, and I confess I’m jumpier than most. Yer feet are soft as a cat’s.”“I wasn’t creeping anywhere, I was going to make coffee and this is my house, I’ll creep anywhere I like,” Colleen muttered with a petulant scowl. “But I wasn’t creeping.

Shannon MacLeod

You turn the lights on and off here and if you can’t sleep and want something to read there are books in the living room…” her voice broke off. “Wait. Can you read?”His chin took a slight tilt upward. “Aye,” Faolán replied, his voice cool, “in English, Gaelic, Latin, or French. My Welsh is a bit rusty, and I doona remember any of the Greek I was taught except for words not fit for a lady’s ears. I can also count all the way up to…” He looked down and wiggled his large bare toes, “…twenty.” – Faolán MacIntyre

Shannon MacLeod

Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre

Shannon MacLeod

There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it.

Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

All worries are less with wine.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.

Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.

Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

In a democracy government is the God.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.