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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 660e2d0 | Steve's head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a challenge that would haunt me for days. " Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?" Sculley felt as if he had been punched in the stomach. There was no response possible other than to acquiesce. " He had a uncanny ability to always get what he wanted, to size up a person and kn.. | persuasion | Walter Isaacson | |
| 9cef256 | The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to stare without blinking. Sometimes this intensity was charming, in a geeky way, such as when he was explaining the profundity of Bob Dylan's music or why whatever product he was unveiling at that moment was the most amazing thing that Apple had eve.. | intensity talent | Walter Isaacson | |
| fd13bd0 | Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them. | dreamer innovation steve-jobs | Walter Isaacson | |
| 06c9637 | Walter Isaacson, who ate dinner with the Jobs family while researching his biography of Steve Jobs, told Bilton that, "No one ever pulled out an iPad or computer. The kids did not seem addicted at all to devices." It seemed as if the people producing tech products were following the cardinal rule of drug dealing: never get high on your own supply." | technology | Adam Alter | |
| e26d8e1 | What was remarkable was that associating with a computer and electronics company was the best way for a rock band to seem hip and appeal to young people. Bono later explained that not all corporate sponsorships were deals with the devil. "Let's have a look," he told Greg Kot, the Chicago Tribune music critic. "The 'devil' here is a bunch of creative minds, more creative than a lot of people in rock bands. The lead singer is Steve Jobs. Thes.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 633c2c7 | Now he was about to launch the Macintosh, a machine that violated many of the principles of the hacker's code: It was overpriced; it would have no slots, which meant that hobbyists could not plug in their own expansion cards or jack into the motherboard to add their own new functions; and it took special tools just to open the plastic case. It was a closed and controlled system, like something designed by Big Brother rather than by a hacker.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bfa7475 | How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains? | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 44bad45 | Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smile, and dark, merry eyes. She wore some kind of a fuzzy lavender pullover, and when she crossed her legs and lifted her guitar onto her lap, she had an interesting way of tucking the foot of the bottom leg back under her chair that made Hector feel melty. He looked away in self-preservation. | close-observation girl | Lynne Rae Perkins | |
| 745d82c | I just want us to be together," he said. "I mean, know it's not possible. But why not? [...] Don't you want us to be together? -Oliver" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| e74ace5 | I don't know who you are. But I do know that every time I see you, I feel better." -Dylan" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6a738f3 | Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love. | blue force jack love rescue schuyler | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 9976903 | As Jack slung an arm around his sister's shoulders in an intimate and affectionate way, something in her heart broke. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 08551c6 | Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together. | blue-bloods destiny future lost-in-time love melissa-de-la-cruz prophecy | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 06ce330 | A picture is worth a thousand texts. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 93accc5 | I was so afraid. I was afraid of losing you." "Never, my love. We will always be together." -- | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 04f5424 | She still loved him, she would always love him, but it was the kind of love that was muted, safely seen through the rear-view window, like a place you used to call home but no longer visited. There would always be a wound there, but the healing had begun. | love mimi | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| a1e5f2e | Sometimes it was better to keep Pandora's box closed. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6f49f2a | Now that she decided she knew exactly what she wanted -him- she couldn't wait to break the news. And if he didn't want her, she could live with that - what she wouldn't be able to live with was if she never told him. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6b4e78b | Forever as it turns out, is a very long time. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| eecfa9e | Don't say his name. I don't want him in here. I will cut him out. | Salvador Plascencia | ||
| 903c348 | I don't deserve this. I have forgiven myself. What I did to you was not so bad. It happens. | Salvador Plascencia | ||
| de870e4 | No one had explained to Cameron when he was twenty years old and proud as hell that he'd managed to get his wife with child, how difficult it would be to raise a son. Nannies and tutors and schools were supposed to do that, weren't they? But sons needed so much more than food, clothing, and tutoring. They expected fathers to know things, to teach them about life, to be there when needed. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| aefb59b | You were light and life. You are heat, and I'm so damn cold. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 6cc6586 | Time is a random thing. It is the thing that makes us older. Humans use it to organize the world. They have invented a system to try to make order from randomness. The other humans, all of them but me, live their lives by hours and minutes and days and seconds, but those things are nothing. The universe would laugh at our attempts to organize it, if it could be bothered to notice them. Time is the thing that makes our bodies shrivel and de.. | time universe | Emily Barr | |
| b3a9aa2 | All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and pours me another finger's worth of whiskey. Then, on second thought, he tips the bottle again. I reach out and grab its neck. "Better not," I say. "Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip." | water-for-elephants | Sara Gruen | |
| 46bb8fc | Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell? | life | Sara Gruen | |
| c0b046b | I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 028df24 | It seems there's nothing so good or pure it can't be taken without a moment's notice. And then in the end, it all gets taken anyway. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 02fd40e | The business of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" was one of the aphorisms his boss liked to quote." | Sara Gruen | ||
| 2ee1243 | Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it | Sara Gruen | ||
| 187195e | I paused beneath the arched entrance, where the drawbridge had once been, imagining all the people who had passed in and out over the centuries, every one of them carrying a combination of desire, hope, jealousy, despair, grief, love, and every other human emotion; a combination that made each one as unique as a snowflake, yet linked all of them inextricably to every other human being from the dawn of time to the end of it. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 0889865 | Eilis imagined the years ahead, when these words would come to mean less and less to the man who heard them and would come to mean more and more to herself. She almost smiled at the thought of it, then closed her eyes and tried to imagine nothing more. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 129a9bb | I wish I still had that photo. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 89e8146 | That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms. | Warren Ellis | ||
| c629785 | All the time, I was telling myself, just enjoy it for what it is, don't be weird, don't get all screwed up over something it isn't. The usual mantra when you're with someone who you're not really with and desperately want to be. Have you noticed how telling yourself all that shit never actually helps? | Warren Ellis | ||
| d7a1671 | Another day down the mines of our lives. We drink 'til we stink and smoke 'til we choke because that's how we get things done, you and me. Spending our lives making things and making things out of our lives, because anything else would be dull as hell and we're damned if we're going to sit at the other end of whatever years we get saying, well, what the fuck was that for? Years of scars, lipstick and tears, and every day the dawn comes on w.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 9989854 | Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly. Build an eye. | science spider-jerusalem | Warren Ellis | |
| 75100c2 | There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 2fa0411 | Edine meje v tvojem zivljenju so tiste, ki si jih postavis sam. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 5f70f80 | Words affect the mind in a pronounced way. Whether they are spoken or written, they are powerful influences. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| e7df4cb | When I need to feel motivated, I might repeat, 'I am inspired, disciplined and energized' out loud two or three hundred times. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| a30d6e8 | The ten-minute period before you sleep and the ten-minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind. Only the most inspiring and serene thoughts should be programmed into your mind at those times. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 14cd7df | The most important gift we can give ourselves is the commitment to living our authentic life. To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live life on our own terms, under our own values and aligned with our original dreams. We must tap our hidden selves; explore the deep-seated, unseen hopes, desires, strengths and weaknesses that make us who we are. We have to understand where.. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| e04282e | Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." --Norman Cousins" | Robin S. Sharma |