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d3f5c8c It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;--it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. intimacy marianne-dashwood openness opportunity self-disclosure time Jane Austen
54dede2 She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn't mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute. argumentation openness persuasion power Max Barry
7a30f33 Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower. openness Victor Hugo
27758c1 When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence. Because if openness, women's empowerment, and freedom of thought and inquiry are the real sources of the West's economic strength, then the Arab-Muslim world would have to change. And the fundamentalists and extremists do not want to change. openness radicals terrorists Thomas L. Friedman
4a642ab "A squirrel flies in," said Dr. Meescham. "This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we left the window open for this very reason, even in the winter. We did it because we believed something wonderful might make its way to us through the open window. Did wonderful things find us? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But tonight it has happened! Something wonderful!" Dr. Meescham clapped her hands. "A window has been left open. A squirrel flies in the window. The heart of an old woman rejoices!" -- open openness window Kate DiCamillo
ba726f5 I heard a doctor say that the living tend to withdraw emotionally from the dying, thereby driving them deeper into isolation. Not to withdraw takes tremendous strength. To pull back is a temptation; it doesn't hurt nearly as much as remaining open. emotions isolation openness strength withdrawal Madeleine L'Engle
0d611cb When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training. manners openness perspective Frank Herbert
3cd904f Life produces a different taste each time you take it. flexibility glory-of-god humility openness Frank Herbert
d3d19f1 Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships. communication honesty openness relationships stewardship transparency wealth Randy Alcorn
3150a10 "He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander" -- openness pride Barbara W. Tuchman
cd6c445 He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. humility openness self-confidence Frank Herbert
47d7aee Culture is nested in context, not genes. humility openness Thomas L. Friedman
8b21542 Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty. distinctiveness openness style Harold Bloom
32246e5 I had never been much interested in Pluto, too few facts and too much isolation. curiosity integration motivation openness teaching Robert A. Heinlein
4d59bd6 A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator. openness questioning Nassim Nicholas Taleb
6f72ecb I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments. liberality openness optimism Harold Bloom
fcf8b64 The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters. intuition openness storytelling Harold Bloom
f363871 Travel was a species of warfare. insularity openness skepticism E.M. Forster
2ce6523 A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist. openness parenthood questioning Thomas L. Friedman
bbd53e1 Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. bitterness compassion condemnation conviction curiosity graciousness openness Harold Bloom
cef3923 The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory. intellect openness perception perspective David McCullough
8ba2603 More depended on the student than on the school. education maturation openness Robert A. Heinlein
4c21a3f Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together. expertise integration openness professionalism specialization Robert A. Heinlein
da4357b Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye. extremism ideology openness prejudice Thomas L. Friedman
fed85bd The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke openness skepticism stubbornness Barbara W. Tuchman
30a4f19 "When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. "Mommy, God's really showing off today!" openness worship Beth Moore
6e617d9 My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life. openness revelation A.J. Jacobs
257c774 If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident. openness Barbara W. Tuchman
07eeb15 He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson. authenticity humility ministry openness pride religiousness E.M. Forster
6584d47 Curiosity - if not desire, if not plain kindness - might have led him to greater zeal. ministry openness passion Geraldine Brooks
451699b "When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting." discipleship humility openness Barbara W. Tuchman
9be633c Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely new variety of experience. openness Rebecca Goldstein
ae835ba David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting. openness Geraldine Brooks
03445fa Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham humility openness Barbara W. Tuchman
a3fed19 Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel. dan-rather inspirational-quotes intuition intuition-quotes laurie-nadel laurie-nadel-quotes openness quote-about-life quote-of-the-day quote-of-the-week quotes-twitter wayne-dyer Laurie Nadel
636c5aa The habit of mobility had become ingrained. culture impatience openness technology Doris Kearns Goodwin
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