Alex Medina

“You can be someone’s manager, but if that person does not trust or respect you, you will have limited ability to influence him.”
― Julie Zhuo, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce

“Copying culture. Another, rather different approach to unsatisfactory culture is to imitate it, replacing the offensive bits with more palatable ones. A subculture within American society might decide that the best solution to the desultory state of the film industry is to start their own movie industry, complete with producers, directors, writers, actors and even theaters, and create a kind of parallel film industry that will fix the apparent problems in mainstream cinema. The new movies created and distributed by this system would certainly be cultural goods, of a sort. But if they were never shown in mainstream movie theaters—if, indeed, they were created and consumed entirely by members of a particular subculture—they would have no influence on the culture of mainstream movies at all.”
― Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling

“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien