Brian Marick quotes

Brian Marick quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
“If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.”
“Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.”
“The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.”
“What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.”
“Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.”
“Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.”
“About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.”
“Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.”
“a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.”

Source : Jacqueline Winspear (2010). “Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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