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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bf60582 | Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They're associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure. | work | Susan Cain | |
| 6b7b90e | it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading intiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are more likely to hear and implement suggestions. Having benefited from the talents of their followers, they are then likely to motivate them to be even more proactive. Introverted leaders create a virtious circle of proactivity. | Susan Cain | ||
| abd73a4 | true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around. | Susan Cain | ||
| d09450f | In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion. | Thomas Paine | ||
| 309d56c | Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! | lover present dance live spirituality music song spiritual life love inspirational sing awareness-quotes be become let-go conscious consciousness-quotes consciousness feet enjoy yourself khayyam harmony letting-go-quotes living-in-the-now moment saadi kamand kamand-kojouri kojouri sufi rumi hafiz hafez awareness surrender forget voice beloved | Kamand Kojouri | |
| f360e5f | A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence. | love cease creature creep cripple disgust lame loathing shattered hide burden right die | Stefan Zweig | |
| 5e4701d | We're all cliches, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role. | meditative | Jonathan Tropper | |
| e3139d3 | Whatever the opposite of a plan is, that's what I've got. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 029e15f | You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place. | planning getting-started | Jim Butcher | |
| a421bd3 | But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, "BOO!" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 198b0bf | I'd had a key to the marina's locks at one time, but I'd lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab's bed. (My life. Hell's bells.) | humor harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 35de7f5 | Michael half-smiled. "The Lord will never give you a burden bigger than your shoulders can bear, Harry. All we can do is face what comes and have faith." I gave him a sour glance. "I need to get myself some bigger shoulders, then. Someone in accounting must have made a mistake." | harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 9482bef | Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping." Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're on our own." Yeah." Good. It's more familiar." | humor karrin-murphy | Jim Butcher | |
| f38d5b9 | He whom the gods love dies young. | literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires | Menander | |
| df9e8e4 | Cardan's gaze catches mine, and I can't help the evil smile that pulls up the corners of my mouth. His eyes are bright as coals, his hatred a living thing, shimmering in the air between us like the air above black rocks on a blazing summer day. | Holly Black | ||
| 69a462a | My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin. | Holly Black | ||
| 9e68fc3 | I swear to fucking God, I will spray you again, | Holly Black | ||
| 031cb52 | So, what did you think of the Unseelie Court?" A slow, wicked smile spread on his face. "Oh, Kaye," he breathed. "It was marvelous. It was perfect." She narrowed her gaze. "I was joking. They were killing things, Corny. For fun. Things like us." He didn't seem to hear her, his eyes looking past her to the bright window. "There was this knight, not yours. He ... " Corny shivered and seemed to abruptly change the direction of his sentence. "H.. | Holly Black | ||
| ba821f0 | Life is like a fruit basket. You can eat some of it or wast it and throw some of it out. Only you can chose on wat to do with that fruit basket. | Takaya Natsuki | ||
| bf6ebcc | Marion fought back the urge to shove the candle in his face and did her best to broaden her smile... | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 1330d88 | What the hell is this? Station after station, talk, talk, talk about the devil and the liberal democrats, what??? They still looking for communists? I dont believe this shit. Give me an amen and thank you jesus...whats with these people? This whole world is one big trailer park. They hate everybody. If theyre not hanging 'gays' they are hanging 'feminists', oh thank god for an 'off' button. Krist, my heart is pounding. Where am I? This cant.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 8fd7cc6 | They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world...Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs. | perfection psychological feelings satisfaction life-lessons life love | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 39a5264 | and yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 881cad9 | Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid | jewish | Philip Roth | |
| d1cec2c | The wood...taught us about survival, about overcoming difficulty, about prevailing over adversity, but it also taught us something about the underlying reason for surviving in the first place. Something about infinite beauty, about undying grace, about things larger and greater than ourselves. About the reasons we were all here. | Daniel James Brown | ||
| 552a86a | Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion | Edward Gorey | ||
| c28daa2 | Time passes, but sometimes it beats the shit out of you as it goes. | John Sandford | ||
| e059d25 | Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 102c1fd | You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue. | competitive-issue true good life beautiful | Mitch Albom | |
| 27d079f | Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 13d5aa8 | To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 958673e | You don't know how to live until you learn how to die. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7593e68 | For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b29d747 | YOU TAKA MY SPACE I BREAKA YOUR FACE | Mitch Albom | ||
| bd90589 | In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly." | John Scalzi | ||
| 7539901 | The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority. | majority minority | Philip K. Dick | |
| de4dfe1 | It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 5353207 | Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer someplace else," and there they go, out of your life forever, and after that until you're dead you're carrying around this huge hunk of love with no one to give it to. And if you do find someone to give it to, the same thing happens all over." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b3dbf2e | I feel the hot winds of karma driving me. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0a67cf7 | Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 18fbc61 | When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f5977f7 | Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well. A portion of him turns against him and acts like another person, defeating him from inside. A man inside a man. Which is no man at all. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ccc8261 | Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. | instinct human-nature hell | Philip K. Dick | |
| 6206131 | Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn't be alone. It's killing you; it's undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people. | Philip K. Dick |