Saturday, September 14, 2019

The eight greatest songwriters

“People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts


William Wang, a great swimmer and a founder of Vizio prides himself on the ways he creates culture of innovation, one that both values and rewards risk, pointed out that ... “Everyone on the team plays an equal role. My role is to create the wave and everyone on our team keeps the wave going.”


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The eight greatest songwriters  Paul Simon and Stephen 
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They keep us busy with their fierce loneliness
we know their smell, their consuming habits, transparent to each other
With them it is impossible to disguise 
irony or pity
They look for us among superficial
arrangements and beyond that 
A friend is a machine for inhabiting
the pre-historic wind of frozen mountains
They belong perhaps to other worlds
we always hug like survivors
With them we can dredge up a song
From under the storm






Ed Power, via The Telegraph
On 9 September 2014, U2 and Apple gave 500 million iTunes users a free album. And they instantly regretted it.


  


Story image for etgar keret from The Sydney Morning HeraldEtgar Keret takes a darker turn in his new stories
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