Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence. ”

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected. ”

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. ”

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. ”

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible. ”

I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better. ”

I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things. ”

The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all! ”

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. ”

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. ”