{"author":"Clifford Cohen","author_id":"Clifford+Cohen","total_quotes":47,"quotes":[{"text":"Give your ambition a name.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["ambition"],"id":2048,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"},{"text":"If someone tells you that they’re called “blueberries” because they’re berries and they’re blue—believe them.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["advertising","honesty","living-in-the-real-world","reality","seeing-reality","truth","veracity"],"id":23117,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"},{"text":"You are not a better or wiser person simply because you’ve ceased to care.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["callousness","cynicism","giving-up","insensitivity","lack-of-caring","narcissism","quixotic","quixotism","selfishness"],"id":35522,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"},{"text":"Why do the powerful always insist on having a “back story” to justify whatever they do? Why can’t they—just once—do something for the simple reason that it is the right thing to do, in itself, for reasons understood and accepted by all? In politics, laws are passed to secretly serve hidden agendas, for without such agendas many lawmakers would never find the motivation to support anything at all.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["back-room-deals","honesty","politics","transparency"],"id":44395,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"},{"text":"A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["acceptance","healing","psychology","therapy"],"id":58061,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"},{"text":"We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["dictators","dictatorship","politics","racism","self-promotion","terrorism","tyranny"],"id":62860,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"},{"text":"Recognize and beware of the snare.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["avoiding-danger","avoiding-trouble","being-proactive","keeping-safe","preparing-for-adversity","proactivity","safety","staying-safe"],"id":80256,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"},{"text":"My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["not-wasting-time","philosophy-of-life","productivity","staying-active","staying-engaged","staying-productive","using-time-well"],"id":97971,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"},{"text":"Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["battle","military","strategy","tactics","war"],"id":104985,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"},{"text":"There’s no arguing with a song that writes itself.","author":"Clifford Cohen","tags":["creativity"],"id":118919,"author_id":"Clifford+Cohen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}