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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e28f9f3 | An author should never turn down the opportunity for a new experience | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| c16fb03 | Science fiction could now be made far more convincing by science fact. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 135747c | Instantly, there had been cries of protest from the industrial archaeologists, outraged at such vandalism, and from the naturalists, who pointed out that the penguins simply loved the abandoned pipeline. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 51639c4 | They had forgotten much, but they did not know it. They were as perfectly fitted to their environment as it was to them--for both had been designed together. What was beyond the walls of the city was no concern of theirs; it was something that had been shut out of their minds. Diaspar was all that existed, all that they needed, all that they could imagine. It mattered nothing to them that Man had once possessed the stars. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 045e85d | There were, however, a few exceptions. One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly drunk but had been sensible enough to pass out before any violent action proved necessary. He had been deposited, not very gently, on the lawn, where it was hoped that a hyena would give him a rude awakening. For all practical purposes he could, therefore, be regarded as absent. | drink drunk funny humorous | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 764deb9 | In Lys, it seemed, all love began with mental contact, and it might be months or years before a couple actually met. In this way, Hilvar explained, there could be no false impressions, no deceptions, on either side. Two people whose minds were open to one another could hide no secrets. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| a714d23 | Men had sought beauty in many forms--in sequences of sound, in lines upon paper, in surfaces of stone, in the movements of the human body, in colours ranged through space. All these media still survived in Diaspar and down the ages others had been added to them. No one was yet certain if all the possibilities of art had been discovered, or if it had any meaning outside the mind of Man. And the same was true of love. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 18c04c7 | It was some kind of cosmic switching device, routing the traffic of the stars through unimaginable dimensions of space and time. He was passing through a Grand Central Station of the galaxy. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| e86286b | He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 157ca09 | Meteorites don't fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way." - John W. Campbell" | science science-fiction | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 91d0f76 | So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 74e4825 | Elizabeth squirmed on the hard wooden bench, and tried to ignore both her sore backside and her rumbling stomach. Why did the minister's sermons last so long? And why did the talk of sin always give her such a hearty appetite? | Anya Seton | ||
| af3c6d1 | It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| bb070c1 | Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 4a023d7 | You create the results in life that you believe you deserve. --DR. PHIL MCGRAW | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| da65f38 | Although it was shadowy and dark, Bim could see as well as by the clear light of day that she felt only love and yearning for them all, and if there were hurts, these gashes in her side that bled, then it was only because her love was imperfect and did not encompass them thoroughly enough, and because it had flaws and inadequacies and did not extend to all equally. | Anita Desai | ||
| 62d667f | Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value--surprisingly quickly. --DAVID MAISTER, BUSINESS AUTHOR AND CONSULTANT | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| eb651d4 | Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 884205a | One thing to be careful of with regard to skills is what author Jim Collins calls "the curse of competence." It's the idea that sometimes we become good at doing something we're not really talented in or passionate about. As my father often says, "Your current skill-set may or may not correspond with your natural talents." We need to make certain that the skills we develop don't limit or define us. At the end of the day, talent provides a d.. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| b80008f | One thing to be careful of with regard to skills is what author Jim Collins calls "the curse of competence." It's the idea that sometimes we become good at doing something we're not really talented in or passionate about. As my father often says, "Your current skill-set may or may not correspond with your natural talents." We need to make certain that the skills we develop don't limit or define us. At the end of the day, talent provides a d.. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 0e8792e | There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business--or life. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 3301a55 | as human beings we are a lot more sophisticated about each other than we are about the abstract world. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 3207ca4 | a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a46b965 | It was an admission of defeat. ... He knew he needed to do a better job of navigating the world, but he didn't know how. He couldn't even talk to his calculus teacher, for goodness' sake. These were things that others, with lesser minds, could master easily. But that's because those others had had help along the way, and Chris Langan never had. It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one--not even rock sta.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 1d05a85 | Greenberg wanted to give his pilots an alternate identity. Their problem was that they were trapped in roles dictated by the heavy weight of their country's cultural legacy. They needed an opportunity to step outside those roles ... and language was the key to that transformation. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 853d944 | Why is a two-year-old so terrible? Because she is systematically testing the fascinating and, to her, utterly novel notion that something that gives her pleasure might not actually give someone else pleasure--and the truth is that as adults we never lose that fascination. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| d1f99cc | If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way--who would like to have a set of associations with blacks that are as positive as those that you have with whites--it requires more than a simple commitment to equality. It requires that you change your life so that you are exposed to minorities on a regular basis and become comfortable with them and familiar with the best of their culture, so that when yo.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 22fe28c | The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 6204325 | There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 4bdd6e8 | I mean, it's ridiculous," Dhuey says. "It's outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects, and no one seems to care about them." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9902171 | When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c4a4a18 | Taleb likes to invoke Popper: 'No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| aabe1b4 | They were poor and living in the farthest corners of the Bronx. How did they afford tickets? "Mary got a quarter," Friedman says. "There was a Mary who was a ticket taker, and if you gave Mary a quarter, she would let you stand in the second balcony, without a ticket." ... and what you learn in that world is that through your own powers of persuasion and initiative, you can take your kids to Carnegie Hall. There is no better lesson for a bu.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 73e4076 | But the problem was, Sacks wasn't comparing herself to all the students in the world taking Organic Chemistry. She was comparing herself to her fellow students at Brown. She was a Little Fish in one of the deepest and most competitive ponds in the country--and the experience of comparing herself to all the other brilliant fish shattered her confidence. It made her feel stupid, even | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 2d40df9 | the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 1d96f96 | concerted cultivation. He gets taken to museums and gets enrolled in special programs and goes to summer camp, where he takes classes. When he's bored at home, there are plenty of books to read, and his parents see it as their responsibility to keep him actively engaged in the world around him. It's not hard to see how Alex would get better at reading and math over the summer. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| b007769 | a social epidemic, Mavens are data banks. They provide the message. Connectors are social glue: they spread it. But there is also a select group of people--Salesmen--with the skills to persuade us when we are unconvinced of what we are hearing, and they are as critical to the tipping of word-of-mouth epidemics as the other two groups. Who | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 07359c7 | The talent myth assumes that people make organizations smart. More often than not, it's the other way around. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 2403c82 | In epidemics, the messenger matters: messengers are what make something spread. But the content of the message matters too. And the specific quality that a message needs to be successful is the quality of "stickiness." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| afb2113 | Sesame Street succeeded because it learned how to make television sticky. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 6170113 | Testers for 7-Up consistently found consumers would report more lemon flavor in their product if they added 15% more yellow coloring TO THE PACKAGE. | marketing packaging senses | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| d0a4fd6 | Apart from the peace and emptiness of the landscape, there is a special smell about winter in Provence which is accentuated by the wind and the clean, dry air. Walking in the hills, I was often able to smell a house before I could see it, because of the scent of woodsmoke coming from an invisible chimney. It is one of the most primitive smells in life, and consequently extinct in most cities, where fire regulations and interior decorators h.. | provence | Peter Mayle | |
| 948417a | It was Day Three, Freshman Year, and I was a little bit lost in the school library,looking for a bathroom that wasn't full of blindingly shiny sophomores checking their lip gloss. Day Three.Already pretty clear on the fact that I would be using secondary bathrooms for at least the next three years,until being a senior could pass for confidence.For the moment, I knew no one,and was too shy to talk to anyone. So that first sight of Edward: pa.. | Melissa Jensen | ||
| 7419d4e | Thinking about justice and mercy and grace, Frederick Douglass said, "I prayed for twenty years. Nothing happened until I got off my knees and started marching with my feet." And that's the role of the church. We already prayed about it. Now let's take action on it. You" | Sybrina Fulton |