Qualities
There is little consensus on what makes good commissioning editors, though most people in the industry would agree that the following are desirable and important:
- business acumen: understanding the market and the company's place in the market
- creativity
- linguistic sensitivity
- communicativeness
- project management skills
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Famous quotes containing the word qualities:
“Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)