Great New Quote

[qos]

Don't wait for the light at the end of the tunnel.
Stride down there and light the thing yourself.


Found that at the beginning of the chapter called "Attitude" in Zaida: Belly Dancing for Older Women.

Comments

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

That's marvelous! Do they attribute it to anyone?

[qos.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately not.

She has inspirational phrases like that at the beginning of every chapter, but none of them have attributions. :-(

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

That probably means she wrote them.

[qos.livejournal.com]

I don't think so, since "Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody is watching" is one of the quotes -- and I know that's not by her.

[unicorndelamer.livejournal.com]

Maybe there's an index at the back of the book that cites where the quotes came from? Or a reference on her website? It seems rather irresponsible of an author to pepper a book with quotes and not cite them. Then again, maybe I'm just too anal about it. ;-)

[qos.livejournal.com]

Nope. I checked for that.

And you're not anal about it. Giving proper attributions for quotations is a basic rule as far as I'm concerned, and can even be a legal issue.