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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7725816 | Elaine had done the ungraceful thing as usual. Guenever, in similar circumstances, would have been sure to grow pale and interesting--but Elaine had only grown plump. | T.H. White | ||
| 4f75870 | To disbelieve in original sin, does not mean that you must believe in original virtue. It only means that you must not believe that people are utterly wicked. | T.H. White | ||
| 15b0ae8 | There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rule. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops. You can't teach a baby to walk by explaining the matter to her logically - she has to learn the strange po.. | T.H. White | ||
| 903ded5 | Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having. | T.H. White | ||
| 4f95de0 | I don't think you can very well give people as presents: they might not like it. | T.H. White | ||
| f7e1a85 | Management's job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 8f0551d | Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning. | Ed Catmull | ||
| b491967 | This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged. | idea | Ed Catmull | |
| 17f3ed7 | The people you choose must (a) make you think smarter and (b) put lots of solutions on the table in a short amount of time. I don't care who it is, the janitor or the intern or one of your most trusted lieutenants: If they can help you do that, they should be at the table." Believe me, you don't want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or matters of policy are being hashed .. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 11d5da1 | The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there , too. I think that would be nice. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 61c4d0a | Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 36a12a0 | The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 22f8da5 | I wonder what my speech would be. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b134e22 | Charlie?' 'Uh-huh?' 'Do you like me?' 'Uh-huh.' 'You know what I mean?' 'Uh-huh.' 'Are you nervous?' 'Uh-huh.' | funny nervous perks perks-of-being-a-wallflower sam wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| e0c367d | Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 5aedc42 | He got this very serious look on his face after I told him, and he said something to me I don't think I will forget this semester or ever. 'Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 9ada138 | I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 2ebec54 | She thanked me for not trying to make what I did seem less by offering a lot of excuses. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 346c287 | I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b503ab4 | I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| e9eb968 | I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning. | ptsd thinking trauma | Stephen Chbosky | |
| c0ef9ea | You're a freak, you know that? You've always been a freak. Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| e3df7ce | Tis a strange calling!' muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, 'to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and downs that may happen to come out of other men's throats. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| ff5e6bc | it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed. | inspirational zen | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| ad49dd3 | It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 57d1630 | But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| dfe8ab4 | Complex systems are full of interdependencies--hard to detect--and nonlinear responses. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| b7a2c56 | Those who believe in the unconditional benefits of past experience should consider this pearl of wisdom allegedly voiced by a famous ship's captain: But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. E. J... | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| c6ecac7 | Many amateurs believe that plants and animals reproduce on a one-way route toward perfection. Translating the idea in social terms, they believe that companies and organizations are, thanks to competition (and the discipline of the quarterly report), irreversibly heading toward betterment. The strongest will survive; the weakest will become extinct. As to investors and traders, they believe that by letting them compete, the best will prospe.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 1cef4ba | A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| fc15b97 | My dream--the solution--is that we would have a National Entrepreneur Day, with the following message: Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty. You are at the source of our antifragility. Our nation thanks you. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| efcc203 | One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." Statistics stay silent in us." | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| fb6b995 | You can imagine how distraught I feel when I hear about the glorified heroism-free "middle class values," which, thanks to globalization and the Internet, have spread to any place easily reached by British Air, enshrining the usual opiates of the deified classes: "hard work" for a bank or a tobacco company, diligent newspaper reading, obedience to most, but not all, traffic laws, captivity in some corporate structure, dependence on the opin.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 08d071e | Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| df8328d | What should we control? As a rule, intervening to limit size (of companies, airports, or sources of pollution), concentration, and speed are beneficial in reducing Black Swan risks. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 9dfb122 | be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 3566560 | What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it. This is all the more worrisome when we engage in deadly conflicts: wars are fundamentally unpredictable (and we do not know it). Owing to this misunderstanding of the causal chains between policy and actions, we can easily trigger Black Swans thanks to aggressive ignorance-like a child playing with a chemistry kit. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 31c13ad | You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 3d62e51 | The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds.... | problem sticky theory | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| d682761 | To understand the future, you do not need technoautistic jargon, obsession with "killer apps," these sort of things. You just need the following: some respect for the past, some curiosity about the historical record, a hunger for the wisdom of the elders, and a grasp of the notion of "heuristics," these often unwritten rules of thumb that are so determining of survival. In other words, you will be forced to give weight to things that have b.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 9f1038e | keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| c3341b0 | those who do too much somewhere do too little elsewhere | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| c24a203 | T]he worst thing one can do to feel one knows things a bit deeper is to try to go into them a bit deeper. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 8b95642 | Sheep are in. | Ann M. Martin |