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| ff209bc | You could pretend that Guenever was a sort of man-eating lioncelle herself, or that she was one of those selfish women who insist on ruling everywhere. In fact, this is what she did seem to be to a superficial inspection. She was beautiful, sanguine, hot-tempered, demanding, impulsive, acquisitive, charming - she had all the proper qualities for a man-eater. But the rock on which these easy explanations founder, is that she was not promiscu.. | T.H. White | ||
| 3cb5f8e | On the raptors kept for falconry: "They talk every night, deep into the darkness. They say about how they were taken, about what they can remember about their homes, about their lineage and the great deeds of their ancestors, about their training and what they've learned and will learn. It is military conversation, really, like what you might have in the mess of a crack cavalry regiment: tactics, small arms, maintenance, betting, famous hun.. | self-deception social-commentary | T.H. White | |
| c68c681 | Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we're doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we're all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we've done something we consider wrong, we're still on our path to enlightenment. | Chris Prentiss | ||
| 62081ec | AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, "We admitted we.. | 12-step-programs aa addiction-cure alcohol alcohol-abuse alcoholic alcoholics-anonymous alcoholism alcoholism-addiction-recovery drug-abuse drug-addiction empowerment non-12-step non-12-step-programs passages-malibu passages-rehab passages-ventura | Chris Prentiss | |
| cb8757a | You can't manage what you can't measure" is a maxim that is taught and believed by many in both the business and education sectors. But in fact, the phrase is ridiculous--something said by people who are unaware of how much is hidden. A large portion of what we manage can't be measured, and not realizing this has unintended consequences. The problem comes when people think that data paints a full picture, leading them to ignore what they ca.. | Ed Catmull | ||
| a3ebb61 | Getting the team right is the necessary precursor to getting the ideas right. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 9b335b4 | Creativity is just connecting things," Apple cofounder Steve Jobs said in 1996. "When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have .. | Charles Duhigg | ||
| 30111ee | There's something else that bears repeating here: Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear. | Ed Catmull | ||
| e101e40 | Uncertainty and change are life's constraints. And that's the fun part. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 02d9a7a | in Japanese Zen, that idea of not being constrained by what we already know is called "beginner's mind." And people practice for years to recapture and keep ahold of it." | Ed Catmull | ||
| 589dfcd | In an unhealthy culture, each group believes that if their objectives trump the goals of the other groups, the company will be better off. In a healthy culture, all constituencies recognize the importance of balancing competing desires--they want to be heard, but they don't have to win. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 622f956 | when someone hatches an original idea, it may be ungainly and poorly defined, but it is also the opposite of established and entrenched--and that is precisely what is most exciting about it. If, while in this vulnerable state, it is exposed to naysayers who fail to see its potential or lack the patience to let it evolve, it could be destroyed. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 7586ad4 | People who take on complicated creative projects become lost at some point in the process. It is the nature of things--in order to create, you must internalize and almost become the project for a while, and that near-fusing with the project is an essential part of its emergence. But it is also confusing. Where once a movie's writer/director had perspective, he or she loses it. Where once he or she could see a forest, now there are only tree.. | Ed Catmull | ||
| b1a1dd9 | My grandma is very old, and she doesn't remember things a lot, but she bakes the most delicious cookies. When I was very little, we had my mom's mom, who always had candy, and my dad's mom,who always had cookies. My mom told me that when I was little, I called them "Candy Grandma" and "Cookies Grandma." I also called pizza crust "pizza bones." I don't know why I'm telling you this." -- | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| f14b9a9 | Pense para mi mismo que en la palma de mi mano habia una cinta que contenia todos estos recuerdos y sentimientos, grandes alegrias y tristezas. Justo ahi, en la palma de mi mano. Y pense en cuanta gente ha amado esas canciones, como mucha gente ha superado un monton de malos tiempos gracias a estas canciones, como mucha gente ha disfrutado de buenos tiempos con estas canciones y cuanto significan estas canciones en realidad. Pienso que seri.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 19dc40e | It suddenly dawned on me that if Michael were still around, Susan probably wouldn't be "going out" with him anymore. Not because she's a bad person or shallow or mean. But because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 150a280 | That's when I started thinking about my sister. I thought about the time when she and her friends painted my fingernails, and how that was okay because my brother wasn't there. And the time she let me use her dolls to make up plays or let me watch whatever I wanted to watch on TV. And when she started becoming a "young lady," and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn't fat. And how she wa.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 7e00d2f | It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arm or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. Like take someone's hands when a slow song comes on for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or wh.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 8933828 | Inside the card, I told Sam that the present I gave her was given to me by my Aunt Helen. It was an old 45 record that had the Beatles' song "Something." I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided them that when I met someone I thought was a beautiful .. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 9397687 | I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things. | existence existentialism friends life life-roles | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 2d888a3 | I hate you" "No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes. "He's my hole world" "Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom. [pp.28]" | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| ae68203 | You know what they say, if you make atleast one friend on your first day you're doing okay | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| dd3ebc2 | That scared me a lot. It scared me how much it scared me. Being punished for something you did not do. Or being an innocent victim. It's just something that I never want to experience. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 71ebff3 | I was last. Sam walked up and held me for a long time. Finally she whispered in my ear. She said a lot of wonderful things about how it was okay that i wasn't ready last night and how she would miss me and how she wanted me to take care of myself while she was gone. "You're my bestfriend," was all i could say in return." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 246bae0 | The good news is that I read the book, and because of its fantasy nature, I could not pretend that I was in the book. That way I could participate and still read. | reading wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| bad4ed6 | I think it's nice for stars to do interviews to make us think they are just like us, but to tell you the truth, I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 55b50f2 | I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. | life live love share | Stephen Chbosky | |
| f6f7c91 | Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 79ff54d | Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 2209ecd | It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| b031a58 | Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgement; and what is there short of the other, that can replace the creatures of the Lord? | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 2b97d75 | Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. | Richard Peck | ||
| d264fa2 | Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| e5b85cc | There is a simple test to define path dependence of beliefs (economists have a manifestation of it called the endowment effect). Say you own a painting you bought for $20,000, and owing to rosy conditions in the art market, it is now worth $40,000. If you owned no painting, would you still acquire it at the current price? If you would not, then you are said to be married to your position. There is no rational reason to keep a painting you w.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 0bf8191 | The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 2ad4d0f | Had Prozac been available last century, Baudelaire's "spleen," Edgar Allan Poe's moods, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the lamentations of so many other poets, everything with a soul would have been silenced*.... If large pharmaceutical companies were able to eliminate the seasons, they would probably do so--for profit, of course. *This does not mean that Sylvia Plath should not have been medicated at all. The point is that pathologies should .. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 7bd4c8c | If you want to study classical values such as courage or learn about stoicism, don't necessarily look for classicists. One is never a career academic without a reason. Read the texts themselves: Seneca, Caesar, or Marcus Aurelius, when possible. Or read commentators on the classics who were doers themselves, such as Montaigne--people who at some point had some skin in the game, then retired to write books. Avoid the intermediary, when possi.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 26fc7b6 | anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| b8dd451 | The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| b9b48f6 | To understand how something works, figure out how to break it. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 4533369 | Sometimes people ask you a question with their eyes begging you to not tell them the truth. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 5d05011 | It is a very recent disease to mistake the unobserved for the nonexistent; but some are plagued with the worse disease of mistaking the unobserved for the unobservable. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| eca0018 | Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 56654be | Contra the prevailing belief, "success" isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies." | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |