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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2c6ed06 | There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| eb0e799 | Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker,... | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 19f0a78 | We were just there together. And that was enough. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 8ce8efe | Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss. | humour life | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 680e88d | But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt. | inspirational | Stephen Chbosky | |
| d131745 | This one kid Mark at the party that gave me this came out of nowhere looked at the sky and told me to see the stars. So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing of a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anyhting but doensn't hurt you.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| a5d82a1 | Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| ca3a5c7 | I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 53d9dd9 | but because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| bd6d812 | A man without conscience is but a poor creature... | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 6ef0c03 | Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 13819c2 | Evidence shows that we do much less thinking than we believe we do--except, of course, when we think about it. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 6db102d | In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics--making things more symmetric. Banishment and exile, or, worse, ostracism were severe penalties--people did not move around voluntarily and considered uprooting a horrible calamity. In larger organisms like the mega holy nation-state, with a smaller role for face-to-face encounters, and social roots, shame ceases to fulfill its duty of disci.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 43566df | In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females. | equity femininity feminism history past | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| c6198bb | Pasteur said, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities-- | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| ea28b7d | History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| b37eee3 | Decentralization is based on the simple notion that it is easier to macrobull***t than microbull***t. Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| adc08dd | Increasingly, data can only truly deliver via negativa-style knowledge--it can be effectively used to debunk, not confirm. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| f5eed5c | It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| a0215b2 | We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results--or those heroes who focus on process rather than results. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| a500890 | The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates! | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 022e93a | What I learned on my own I still remember. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 59b735c | Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up , for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that .. | writing | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| f6461a9 | People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 06c7da4 | In a thick and captivating book, La rebellion francaise, the historian Jean Nicolas shows how the culture of rioting was extremely sophisticated--historically, it counts as the true French national sport. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| e300073 | Almost all people answer that the opposite of "fragile" is "robust", "resilient", "solid", or something of the sort. But the resilient, robust (and company) items that neither break nor improve, so you would not need to write anything on them--have you ever seen a package with "robust" in thick green letters stamped on it? Logically, the exact opposite of a "fragile" parcel would be a package on which one has written "please mishandle" or ".. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 4a8dfa1 | So just as Stoicism is the domestication, not the elimination, of emotions, so is the barbell a domestication, not the elimination, of uncertainty. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| c167fcc | Note another element of Switzerland: it is perhaps the most successful country in history, yet it has traditionally had a very low level of university education compared to the rest of the rich nations. Its system, even in banking during my days, was based on apprenticeship models, nearly vocational rather than the theoretical ones. In other words, on techne (crafts and know how), not episteme (book knowledge, know what). | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| ceb7cd1 | When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| f7cba72 | Let us return to pathemata mathemata (learning through pain) and consider its reverse: learning through thrills and pleasure. People have two brains, one when there is skin in the game, one when there is none. Skin in the game can make boring things less boring. When you have skin in the game, dull things like checking the safety of the aircraft because you may be forced to be a passenger in it cease to be boring. If you are an investor in .. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 8b9e52a | it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 8887ffd | I really loved this book. I did for a school book report last year and I really got into it I just couldnt take my eyes of! You really absolutley need to read this book! | Ann M. Martin | ||
| ea4d611 | Because he is good and kind," she explained softly, then went on. "Because he treats me like a princess. Because he makes me laugh. Because he makes me happy. Because he took the trouble to read to me when I could not read to myself. Because he fed me and gave me wine when I could not eat or drink at balls. Because when he kisses me my toes curl, and when he makes love to me I cannot contain my passion." | kisses love-is-blind makes-me-laugh passion toes-curl | Lynsay Sands | |
| f496f48 | Lucern was worth giving up chocolate. Dark chocolate, white chocolate, milk chocolate - she would happily give it all up for him. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| b0e789c | You told her I was gay." "Yes, but see--" "And she BELIEVED you!" he asked with horror. "Yes, of course. Why would she think I'd lie about something like that?" she asked with exasperation. "Julius," Marguerite chastised gently when his father muffled a guffaw. "Sorry, darling, but he gave me such grief over wooing you that I can't help but think this is funny," Julius said, slipping his arm around Marguerite. "It isn't funny," Christian gr.. | christian gia | Lynsay Sands | |
| e35069a | She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he'd be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He'd lie there for a few minutes. He'd be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He'd brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park. But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never snea.. | fragile lessons lies subdue | Francine Pascal | |
| 2ed5103 | Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun. | Francine Pascal | ||
| dccded0 | Where have you been?" I asked weakly. A few minutes ago I would have rather died than questioned him. Let him know I care. But I'm too sick to be strong, kick ass Rayne at the moment. "Vegas" he says. I raise an eyebrows. "Uh, okay. Win anything?" I can't believe he was off gambling as I lay dying. I mean, I know poker is hot and all, but couldn't he have waited a couple of days for that straight flush? "I got what I went for, if that's wha.. | dying jareth rayne vegas | Mari Mancusi | |
| e3025ed | The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at not being able to remain children forever. | Keith Donohue | ||
| d91b615 | To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting. | Keith Donohue | ||
| 83df942 | Esa noche volvieron a sucederse los suenos. ?Por que ese recordar intenso de tantas cosas? ?Por que no simplemente la muerte y no esa musica tierna del pasado? | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 56fca01 | Me gustas mas en las noches, cuando estamos los dos en la misma almohada, bajo las sabanas, en la oscuridad | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 3d2ac29 | Finally, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November 1863 as Thanksgiving: a day to solemnly acknowledge the sacrifices made for the Union....Shopping was part of the American Dream, too. So in 1939, at the urging of merchants, FDR moved Thanksgiving ahead a week, to lengthen the Christmas shopping season. And there it has remained, a day of national gluttony, retail pageantry, TV football, and re.. | Tony Horwitz | ||
| c83d79e | When I take my hand out of this blanket," he thought, "my nail will be grown back, my hands will be clean. My body will be clean. I'll have on clean shorts, clean undershirt, a white shirt. A blue polka-dot tie. A gray suit with a stripe, and I'll be home, and I'll bolt the door. I'll put some coffee on the stove, some records on the phonograph, and I'll bolt the door. I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I.. | J.D. Salinger |