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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bbed1f8 | You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identit.. | identity transience | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| d50eee1 | Butun duvarlar gibi iki anlamli, iki yuzluydu. Neyin iceride, neyin disarida oldugu, duvarin hangi yanindan baktiginiza bagliydi. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 70ad12a | Old age isn't a state of mind. It's an existential situation. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 568ff6f | That sacrificiality was what Takver had spoken of recognizing in herself when she was pregnant, and she had spoken with a degree of horror, of self-disgust, because she too was an Odonian, and the separation of means and ends was, to her too, false. For her as for him, there was no end. There was process: process was all. You could go in a promising direction or you could go wrong, but you did not set out with the expectation of ever stoppi.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 426ee0b | Words are my matter--my stuff. Words are my skein of yarn, my lump of wet clay, my block of uncarved wood. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 53fe2bc | No, I don't understand him, but he is worth listening to. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5c4c451 | The fact that everyone between seventeen and thirty-five or so is liable to be (as Nim put it) "tied down to childbearing," implies that no one is quite so thoroughly "tied down" here as women, elsewhere are likely to be--psychologically or physically. Burden and privilege are shared out pretty equally; everybody has the same risk to run or choice to make. Therefore nobody here is quite so free as a free male anywhere else." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 48ee156 | Arren was silent, pondering this. Presently the mage said, speaking softly, "Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed. On every act the Balance of t.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| bea78d3 | Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future. | lying philosophy thought-provoking truth | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 165484c | Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder. | nervousness sensitivity worry | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| d522be4 | You are rich. You own. We are poor. We lack. You have. We do not have. Everything is beautiful here, only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces. The men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other. Here you see the jewels. There you see the eyes. And in the eyes you see the splendor, the splendor of the human spirit, because our men and women are free possessing nothing. They .. | liberty ownership possession | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 01217e8 | They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 772c39c | As a boy, Ogion like all boys had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art-magic whatever shape one liked, man or beast, tree or cloud, and so to play at a thousand beings. But as a wizard he had learned the price of the game, which is the peril of losing one's self, playing away the truth. The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril. Every prentice-sorcerer learns the tale of the wizard Bordger of Wa.. | animals childhood earthsea wisdom | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 3bc0ec8 | For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing. | fantasy magic | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| 5e81bb6 | In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way round: the university conferred superiority on the man. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| dceee82 | What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now. | in-the-moment inspirational | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| fd24939 | How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid. Of course they were right. Women were likely, as women, to take the next generations part, not this one's; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2d3ecca | We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel - or have done and thought and felt; or might do and think and feel - is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become... A person who had never listened to nor read a tale or myth or parable or story, would remain ignorant of his own emotional and spiritual heights and depths, would not know quite fully what i.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a4e5043 | They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they (...) become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls. | fantasy magic sorcery tombs-of-atuan ursula-k-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| bcbb467 | A grating sound came from the dragon's throat . . . "You offer me safety! You threaten me! With what?" "With your name, Yevaud." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a0cc6b0 | An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world. For a little while. For as long as it takes to look at or listen or to watch or read the work of art. Like a crystal, the work of art seems to contain the whole, and to imply eternity. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 3cd03d1 | Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. --Ursula K. Le Guin | Sue Johnson | ||
| 658a1d4 | For to keep dark the mind of the mageborn, that is a dangerous thing. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8d2cb62 | The tree said in its rooted being, "All my leaves are seen, but one, this one in the darkness cast by all the others. This one leaf I keep secret to myself. Who will see it in the darkness of my leaves? And who will count the number of them?" | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4454026 | The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them. | existentialism psychiatry | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 7f3f381 | The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability. | hummingbird | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 00e6419 | Orr was not a fast reasoner. In fact, he was not a reasoner. He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6af777c | Nobody achieves anything great by giving the minimum. No teams win championships without making sacrifices and giving their best. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 9ccb135 | Leadership is influence--nothing more, nothing less. If you are being salt and light as Jesus commanded, then you have begun to obey God's call to leadership. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4487646 | Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 0ecfde1 | As people gain more authority, they often develop a lack of patience in listening to those under them. A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 6be18d5 | People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 3546d47 | The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| b50c8a9 | The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 52a3f64 | When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don't give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 0e7a561 | Position is a poor substitute for influence. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 884986c | Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 20fe7e0 | A Chinese proverb says, "Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well." Gratitude is one of the most attractive of all personal attributes;" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 858c55c | If you can't influence people, then they will not follow you. And if people won't follow, you are not a leader. That's the Law of Influence. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4f62c4c | You could use the 80/20 rule. Give 80 percent of your effort to the top 20 percent (most important) activities. Another way is to focus on exceptional opportunities that promise a huge return. It comes down to this: give your attention to the areas that bear fruit. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 5786f3d | A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one sin.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 3d38728 | anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| cf55399 | Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 6039477 | The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7)." | Beth Moore |