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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f85efbe | This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed. | John Howard Griffin | ||
| 534f5e8 | Perhaps we should see what comes next. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 43665b3 | I've never understood it. That is always the first thing someone asks: Where are you from. Not 'What do you like?' or 'What do you believe?' or even 'What is your mother like?' which all have more bearing on the person I am. And if I don't tell them where I'm from, they try to guess.... It drives them mad, as if to know me they need to know where I am from. | Meljean Brook | ||
| eeca063 | Money could buy her slippers. Only crazy would get her a man. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 8399b56 | No armor. No buckles. Only a few layers of cotton and ten feet of parlor separated his mouth from her breasts. | Meljean Brook | ||
| efea111 | Mine crept up on me instead of hitting me fast, but after a while, it was the same--so that if I didn't have a...a salve, I couldn't function, and I'd start planning my day around just getting it," she said quietly, and had to swallow before she continued. "And you tell yourself that it makes you feel good--but really, you're just getting by. Because you feel like shit with it, but you really feel like shit without it, so you need it to get.. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 3bdf7ad | Though emotion roughened his voice, he spoke quietly. This was only for her. "I am your sword and your shield. I am your wolf and your steed. Mountains will tremble at my approach, for they know I will tear them apart if they stand between us. But you need not be afraid, Zenobia Fox, because my heart is iron and my will is steel, and before the new moon rises, I will come for you" ... He kissed her and as he pulled away, he wasn't leaving h.. | Meljean Brook | ||
| ae0c5b0 | Men made life far too difficult when they insisted on neatly categorizing their emotions. When emotions became complicated, they brooded and struggled so mightily in an attempt to simplify them again--when, given time, everything would sort itself out and slide into its place. | Meljean Brook | ||
| e84cb96 | People never believed of others what they couldn't imagine of themselves. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 8d57dc1 | People," she sneered, "were not meant to be as happy as you make them." | one-eyed-rosie the-jolly-mon | Jimmy Buffett | |
| ff2a303 | I come from the ocean with songs of the sea No lesson for learning, just play upon me | Jimmy Buffett | ||
| 695d9f1 | Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills. | collaboration competence empower leaders networking trust | Kenneth H. Blanchard | |
| 9c596f2 | When I first came to work her i spotted a problem that needed to be solved, but I didn't know what to do. So I called the One Minute Manager. When he answered the phone, I said, Sir, I have a problem. Befor I could get another word out, he said, Good! That's what you've been hired to solve. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| c6cbc01 | An effective leader must step back, look at the big picture, and make sure the important things are not being pushed out of the way by the seemingly urgent needs of the moment. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 937feaf | I wanted to see my family, even if it meant dying with them. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| c295b00 | These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past." (page 20)" | Ishmael Beah | ||
| e01384a | You have bound us, Kimble imagined saying, to an evil world. Where's the love in that? And in that scenario, God always answered, Temporarily bound you, yes. Now, during your time in that evil world, did you do anything to help? | Michael Koryta | ||
| bf37954 | I don't have any chocolate bars right now." She pressed her lips together as she placed two small fingers at the bridge of her nose and shook her head as though she had lost all hope for him. Finally, she sighed as though more than put out. Her eyes were twinkling, though, the shadows of fear easing. "I'll take you on your word then," she sighed. "But you really should stock up on chocolate bars. It's more precious than gold when dealing wi.. | more-precious-than-gold | Lora Leigh | |
| e585f81 | The letter came at a time in his life when the battle inside his soul could have tipped either way. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 69a8dc3 | At this point, my greatest enemy was myself. Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble. | Bear Grylls | ||
| d99a6e5 | Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bitterly cold, and Hywel's every breath trailed after him in pale puffs of smoke. The glazed snow crackled underfoot as he started towards the great hall. | night snow stars | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 028149b | Francis stared down at the Duchess of York's letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice, "It was showed by John Sponer that King Richard, late mercifully reigning upon us, was through great treason piteously slain and murdered, to the great heaviness of this City." As Margaret listened, the embittered grey eyes had softened, misted with sudden tears. "My brother may lie in an untended grave," she said, "but he does not lack fo.. | richard-iii tragedy wars-of-the-roses | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| a9025eb | Messages continued to arrive from the Earl of Warwick, urging Londoners to hold firm for King Harry. Marguerite d'Anjou and her son were expected to land at any time, while from St Albans, Edward sent word that Harry of Lancaster was to be considered a prisoner of state. At that, John Stockton, the Mayor of London, contracted a diplomatic virus and took to his bed. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 10cab07 | He mopped her face and thought how beautiful she was -- hair in a glorious tangle, a pink nose and puffy eyes, and swathed in a shapeless dressing gown only fit for the dustbin. The thought struck him with some force that he had fallen in love at last -- that, indeed, he had been in love for some time. | Betty Neels | ||
| 570eae2 | You see, when we met I thought, "There's a brown mouse of a girl with a sharp tongue," and then before I knew what was happening I was in love with you. Oh, I did my best to ignore it, and I thought that if I ignored you too I'd be safely back in my bachelor state in no time--only it didn't work out like that. You were under my skin, in my bones, my very heartbeat. And I'd gone out of my way to make you dislike me so that it would be easier.. | Betty Neels | ||
| fc6a604 | Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 26174e6 | A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."46" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e4f98a7 | Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. Dozens of the colleagues whom Jobs most abused ended their litany of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible. And he created a corporation crammed with A players. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 96df9a5 | During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d87bf39 | science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ce31c45 | Jobs tended to be deeply moved by artists who displayed purity, and he became a fan. He invited Ma to play at his wedding, but he was out of the country on tour. He came by the Jobs house a few years later, sat in the living room, pulled out his 1733 Stradivarius cello, and played Bach. "This is what I would have played for your wedding," he told them. Jobs teared up and told him, "You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the ex.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a333a3d | I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics," he said. "Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b1bc041 | For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5522138 | It is tasteless to prolong life artificially," he told Dukas. "I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ef147d7 | Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are a.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 58bcfcb | When I went to Pixar, I became aware of a great divide. Tech companies don't understand creativity. They don't appreciate intuitive thinking, like the ability of an A&R guy at a music label to listen to a hundred artists and have a feel for which five might be successful. And they think that creative people just sit around on couches all day and are undisciplined, because they've not seen how driven and disciplined the creative folks at pla.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e7b07b6 | When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. " People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, " he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove." | innovation musing | Walter Isaacson | |
| a95bf33 | We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it find itself behind." | innovation | Walter Isaacson | |
| 83994ab | Jobs and Clow agreed that Apple was one of the great brands of the world, probably in the top five based on emotional appeal, but they needed to remind folks what was distinctive about it. So they wanted a brand image campaign, not a set of advertisements featuring products. It was designed to celebrate not what the computers could do, but what creative people could do with the computers. " This wasn't about processor speed or memory," Jobs.. | business-culture business-success | Walter Isaacson | |
| a675a1f | Jobs liked to tell the story- and he did so to his team that day- about how everything that he had done correctly had required a moment when he hit the rewind button. In each case he had to rework something that he discovered was not perfect. He talked about doing it on Toy Story, when the character of Woody had evolved into being a jerk, and on a couple of occasions with the original Macintosh. " If something isn't right, you can't just ig.. | problem-solving | Walter Isaacson | |
| 9162be9 | There have been, of course, many other insatiable polymaths, and even the Renaissance produced other Renaissance Men. But none painted the Mona Lisa, much less did so at the same time as producing unsurpassed anatomy drawings based on multiple dissections, coming up with schemes to divert rivers, explaining the reflection of light from the earth to the moon, opening the still-beating heart of a butchered pig to show how ventricles work, des.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7105eab | proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one's reputation." So he put himself "as much as I could out of sight" and gave credit for the idea to his friends. This method worked so well that "I ever after practiced it on such occasions." People will eventually give you the credit, he noted, if you don't try to claim it at the time. "The present little sacrifice of your vanity will afterwards be amply repaid." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c629d87 | The tongue of a woodpecker can extend more than three times the length of its bill. When not in use, it retracts into the skull and its cartilage-like structure continues past the jaw to wrap around the bird's head and then curve down to its nostril. In addition to digging out grubs from a tree, the long tongue protects the woodpecker's brain. When the bird smashes its beak repeatedly into tree bark, the force exerted on its head is ten tim.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9f0f18f | Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging," said Ive. " I love the process of unpacking something. You design a ritual of unpacking to make the product feel special. Packaging can be theater, it can create a story." | design innovation | Walter Isaacson |