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| 8acc25f | Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two materials are alike. No two sites on earth are alike. No two buildings have the same purpose. The purpose, the site, the material determine the shape. Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it's made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a man. Its integrity is to follow its own .. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 15a1768 | Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being? -The man without purpose. | Ayn Rand | ||
| d2e0e1a | to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay - that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live - that your body is a mach.. | purpose work | Ayn Rand | |
| a34c7a8 | Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 7e11d27 | Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6684325 | Principles of design: 1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head. 2. Simplify the structure of tasks. 3. Make things visible: bridge gulfs between Execution and Evaluation. 4. Get the mappings right. 5. Exploit the power of constraints. 6. Design for error. 7. When all else fails, standardize. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 5638454 | There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7ff023a | Two gallons is a great deal of wine, even for two paisanos. Spiritually the jugs maybe graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the first bottle, serious and concentrated conversation. Two inches farther down, sweetly sad memory. Three inches more, thoughts of old and satisfactory loves. An inch, thoughts of bitter loves. Bottom of the first jug, general and undirected sadness. Shoulder of the second jug, black, unholy despondency. Two fi.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4ad9b6b | Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7e110e4 | He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b6079c3 | We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it... | Neil Strauss | ||
| 98f4111 | I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen. | Nora Roberts | ||
| c30c54b | When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way. | Nora Roberts | ||
| cc993a3 | He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 88730b9 | If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong. | Dan Brown | ||
| ee874cc | love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 83bf065 | So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you. | Jack London | ||
| 37fa780 | Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays- I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd. | James N. Frey | ||
| ce4bad3 | You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel." | warrior warrior-ethos | Steven Pressfield | |
| 840cfee | The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| c137c1c | The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her. | motivation writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| f05357d | They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly. | Jack London | ||
| 3354877 | November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| dbb920d | The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous. | sarcasm | Charles Dickens | |
| 0ae2f66 | Estella was the inspiration of it, and the heart of it, of course. But, though she had taken such strong possession of me, though my fancy and my hope were so set upon her, though her influence on my boyish life and character had been all-powerful, I did not, even that romantic morning, invest her with any attributes save those she possessed. I mention this in this place, of a fixed purpose, because it is the clue by which I am to be follow.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 42e37cf | He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon. | philosophy solitude | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| faeef0b | The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are well-educated -- is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambigous or even contradictory situations -- in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 8a695a2 | It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats," Vic says, looking through his magic sight. "Five guys on it. Headed our way." He fires another round. "Correction. Four guys on it." Boom. "Correction, they're not headed our way anymore." Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. "Correction. No boat." | Neal Stephenson | ||
| aa48a5a | The other part of me wanted to get out and stay out, but this was the part I never listened to. Because if I ever had I would have stayed in the town where I was born and worked in the hardware store and married the boss's daughter and had five kids and read them the funny paper on Sunday morning and smacked their heads when they got out of line and squabbled with the wife about how much spending money they were to get and what programs the.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 9fe8dfe | Clarissa will be bereaved, deeply lonely, but she will not die. She will be too much in love with life, with London. Virginia imagines someone else, yes, someone strong of body but frail-minded; someone with a touch of genius, of poetry, ground under by the wheels of the world, by war and government, by doctors; a someone who is, technically speaking insane, because that person sees meaning everywhere, knows that trees are sentient beings a.. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 119529f | Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and.. | Ted Dekker | ||
| c92a5e2 | Mania was a mental state every bit as dangerous as depression. At first, however, it felt like a rush of euphoria. You were completely captivating, completely charming; everybody loved you. You took ridiculous physical risks, jumping out of a third-floor dorm room into a snowbank, for instance. It made you spend your year's fellowship money in five days. It was like having a wild party in your head, a party at which you were the drunken hos.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 280d709 | She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 9311496 | Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b198ca5 | Where we stand depends on where we sit." Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are--or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them." | psychology | Stephen R. Covey | |
| ea91f7d | You know those days when you get the means reds?' 'Same as the blues?' 'No,' she said slowly. 'No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. You're afraid, and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is. You've had that feeling?' 'Quite often. Some people call it .. | Truman Capote | ||
| 1e11fde | I thought of the future, and spoke of the past. | Truman Capote | ||
| 3108805 | you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it. | Truman Capote | ||
| 439addc | They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5d40ae4 | Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 12f09af | A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a m.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 35b73ba | Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next. | Douglas Adams | ||
| c690f94 | Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b8e2221 | Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially. | ethics humor vegetarian vegetarianism | Douglas Adams |