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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f63e1f2 | What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she married a guy named Levondowski? Would her little liberated soul insist she go through life as F.Gwendolin Skowinski- Levondowski? | John Grisham | ||
| 1d2d066 | It takes just one, he says over and over. You hear that all the time in this business. One big case, and you can retire. That's one reason lawyers do so many sleazy things, like full-color ads in the yellow pages, and billboards, and placards on city buses, and telephone solicitation. You hold your nose, ignore the stench of what you're doing, ignore the snubs and snobbery of big-firm lawyers, because it takes only one. | John Grisham | ||
| b4c916d | Enjoyment is more subjective than evaluation. Whether you prefer peaches to pears is a question of taste, which is not quite true of whether you think Dostoevsky a more accomplished novelist than John Grisham. Dostoevsky is better than Grisham in the sense that Tiger Woods is a better golfer than Lady Gaga. | john-grisham lady-gaga | Terry Eagleton | |
| 0cf0e0d | Good God, Keith." "Yes, I've talked to Him too and I'm still waiting on his Guidance..." | good guidance keith still talk yes | John Grisham | |
| 177266b | Lucien had taught him that fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid - just don't show it. | John Grisham | ||
| 51d6110 | Look at me," he said, glancing down at his legs. "A wretched old man in a red monkey suit. A convicted murderer about to be gassed like an animal. And look at you. A fine young man with a beautiful education and a bright future. Where in the world did I go wrong? What happened to me? I've spent my life hating people, and look what I have to show for it. You, you don't hate anybody. And look where you're headed. We have the same blood. Why a.. | John Grisham | ||
| 4d704c4 | The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. 'Inspirat.. | productivity work work-ethic | Oliver Burkeman | |
| b215551 | No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete. | John Grisham | ||
| f54b480 | In the bottom right-hand corner was a decent-sized color photo of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Trudeau posing with their new acquisition. Brianna, ever photogenic, as she damned well be, emanated glamour. Carl looked rich, thin, and young, he thought, and was as baffling in print as she was in person. Was she really a work of art? Or was she just a hodgepodge of bronze and cement thrown together by some confused soul working hard to appear tortured? | John Grisham | ||
| b0290a2 | I want to tell you a story. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves. Go ahead. Close your eyes, please. This is a story about a little girl walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. I want you to picture this little girl. Suddenly a truck races up. Two men jump out and grab her. They drag her into a nearby field and they tie her up .. | John Grisham | ||
| 003551d | Appalachia was Appalachia, regardless of boundaries someone had set an eternity ago. A land of breathtaking beauty, of steep hills and rolling mountains | John Grisham | ||
| cee1d5c | A handshake, as delivered by Lyndon Johnson, could be as effective as a hug. | undivided-attention | Robert A. Caro | |
| af5637b | He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too." | mentoring motivation | Robert A. Caro | |
| 55b3c27 | If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses) | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 9d909cc | You are a Bridgerton. I don't care who you marry or what your name becomes when you stand up before a priest and say your vows. You will always be a Bridgerton, and we behave with honor and honesty, not because it is expected of us, but because that is what we are." Eloise" -- | Julia Quinn | ||
| af763a2 | you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 32046a9 | What house do you belong to?" "Ravenclaw," I say. The clever one. The woman hands me the blue Ravenclaw scarf. "You're also kind of a Hufflepuff, don't you think?" Leela asks. "Hardworking, loyal . . . Although last night you were a total Gryffindor. So brave." "Maybe I'm Divergent," I say. I pose under the Platform 9 3/4 sign, point my wand, and smile for Leela's photo." | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| a144304 | This is the part where they try to make you remember," said Sadie. She looked at my wrists. "Is it working?" Without realizing it, I'd pushed one sleeve of my pajamas up and was rubbing the gauze that circled my wrist. I stopped, and let the sleeve fall back where it was." | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 5cbccca | People still think what you look like is who you are. | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| b9ac497 | I realized that all those superheroes were doing was fighting themselves, and that getting to breathe underwater or shoot fire from your fingers didn't really make up for being screwed up in the first place. It was just the consolation prize--you got the great costume and the invisible jet for being a loser in everything else. | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 2341ef7 | 1. Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about. 2. Incentivize them on the dimensions that are valuable to them but cheap for you to provide. 3. Pay attention to how people respond; if their response surprises or frustrates you, learn from it and try something different. 4. Whenever possible, create incentives that switch the frame from adversarial to cooperative. 5. Never, ever th.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| f10dc1b | Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third? such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gott.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| e64b710 | Experts depend on the fact that you don't have the information they do. Or that you are so befuddled by the complexity of their operation that you wouldn't know what to do with the information if you had it. Or that you are so in awe of their expertise that you wouldn't dare challenge them. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 0f152c4 | Deliberate practice has three key components: setting specific goals; obtaining immediate feedback; and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 525a96b | Trying to keep a public men's room clean? Sure, go ahead and put up signs urging people to pee neatly--or, better, paint a housefly on the urinal and watch the male instinct for target practice take over. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| e660317 | But in both instances, the dissemination of the information diluted its power. As Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once wrote, "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 773c065 | The takeaway here is simple but powerful: just because you're great at something doesn't mean you're good at everything. Unfortunately, this fact is routinely ignored by those who engage in--take a deep breath--ultracrepidarianism, or "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence." | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 372a420 | It is well and good to opine or theorize about a subject, as humankind is wont to do, but when moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| ad380da | Congress passed legislation requiring a five-year mandatory sentence for selling just five grams of crack; you would have to sell 500 grams of powder cocaine to get an equivalent sentence. This disparity has often been called racist, since it disproportionately imprisons blacks. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 62273e9 | Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 8df8c6b | When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land by order of his Majesty the King of Spain. Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian. | Jared Diamond | ||
| d0327af | In a similar vein, Jared Diamond has observed: "Personally, I can't fathom why Australia's giants should have survived innumerable droughts in their tens of millions of years of Australian history, and then have chosen to drop dead almost simultaneously (at least on a time scale of millions of years) precisely and just coincidentally when the first humans arrived." -- | Elizabeth Kolbert | ||
| dd30a3c | There was an old joke about being left on a deserted island with an editor. You are starving. All you have left is a glass of orange juice. Days pass. You are near death. You are about to drink the juice when the editor grabs the glass from your hand and pees into it. You look at him, stunned . "There," the editor says, handing you the glass. "It just needed a little tweaking." | Harlan Coben | ||
| 60a0914 | I choose to be the person that i want to be | James Frey | ||
| ac3abed | In 1970, a superior Court judge issues an order forcing the desegregation of Los Angeles schools. The judge survives an assassination attempt and loses his job in the next election. | James Frey | ||
| caa5736 | 1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days. | smog | James Frey | |
| e3ef71b | Thank you Lilly, Leonard, MIles, I love you and I thank you | James Frey | ||
| d0af12e | Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got. | James N. Frey | ||
| ec7b157 | You can kill the spell of identification just as easily as you can create it--if you lose the readers' sympathy for the character. You can lose reader sympathy by having your character commit acts of cruelty to another character with whom the readers identify more strongly or for whom they have strong sympathy. You can lose reader sympathy by having the character make dumb choices--acting at less than maximum capacity. The idiot in the horr.. | James N. Frey | ||
| d4805d3 | If you're gonna cry, cry because of all the good times we had, and all the laughs, and all the fun shit we did, and cry because those memories make you happy. | James Frey | ||
| 8906a91 | articulate and define what has previously remained implicit or unsaid; | Donald T. Phillips | ||
| c696f62 | Ayla just didn't seem like a woman who was about to join and establish a new hearth with a man she loved. There was no joy, no excitement. Something was missing. Something called Jondalar. | jondalar love | Jean M. Auel | |
| f4c99d6 | Ayla, what am I doing wrong?" he asked, standing in front of her, dripping. "It's not you. I'm the one who's doingit wrong." "You're not doing anything wrong." "Yes I am. I've been trying all day to encourage you, but you don't understand Clan gestures." -- | frustration jondalar | Jean M. Auel | |
| 2885af7 | Like men, some grow best in company, striving to outdo the rest. Others need to grow their own way, though it may be lonely. Both have value. | Jean M. Auel |