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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d454b4b | Bucket I feel so dreamy dreamy lazy, crazy sleepy like I want to be there in the doorway, the doorway or the porch corner be sitting, be empty notdoing not going an old bucket left there in the porch corner is like I am an old empty bucket somebody left there. | poem sleepy ursula-k-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 37a0f19 | Our souls are old, often used before. The knife outlasts the hand that holds it. | souls ursula-k-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| fd7ab99 | Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry. I could have told him even then that it was not shame so much as fear. Now I went on through the Sinoth Valley, through the evening of his death, into the cold country that lies beyond fear. There I found you can weep all you like, but there's no good in it. | mourning | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a8221ff | Large, general questions about meaning, etc., can only be answered with generalities, which make me uncomfortable, because it is so hard to be honest when you generalize. If you skip over all the details, how can you tell if you're being honest or not? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5719693 | Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial. | joy war | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| c741480 | Positive thinking founded on denial may not be so great. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f75182a | With the myth of the State out of the way, the real mutuality and reciprocity of society and individual became clear. Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice - the power of change, the essential function of life. The Odonian society was conceived as a permanent revolution, and revolution .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c965e9d | But as we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b1ec41f | For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it's true. Children know that. Adults know it too and that's precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons because they are afraid of freedom. | le-guin ursula-k-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| e46e7ba | Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fa43874 | Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying. The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don't recommend that you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It's none of their business. All they're trying to do is tell you what th.. | writing writing-process | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 9ce6ed0 | talking about the "meaning" of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things to different people. It may have no definitive reading. And a reader may find a meaning in it that the writer never intended, never imagined, yet recognizes at once as valid." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e6a2f85 | Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry." "Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind." | compassion fantasy friendship kids wonder | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 3fe58cf | There is no light.. for those who do not know darkness.. Live on and endure the shadows, Takezo.. And brightness shall come your way. | Takehiko Inoue | ||
| 4f6a9bf | If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you've never had! | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 6a517d2 | Recently I had breakfast with Dan Cathy, the president of Chick-fil-A, a fast food chain headquartered in the Atlanta area. I told him that I was working on this book and I asked him if he made thinking time a high priority. Not only did he say yes, but he told me about what he calls his "thinking schedule." It helps him to fight the hectic pace of life that discourages intentional thinking. Dan says he sets aside time just to think for hal.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 0c604df | One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| c057378 | Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of your success, but by the value of the goal. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| bc88549 | Nobody finishes well by accident. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4b8750e | John Wesley: "Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 016261a | We need to decide how we want to be treated. Then we need to begin treating others in that manner. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| daa6fc7 | When it comes to taking risks, I believe there are two kinds of people: those who don't dare try new things, and those who don't dare miss them. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 7632604 | The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others. You cannot produce consistently on a level higher than your leadership. In other words, your leadership skills determine the level of your success-and the success of those who work around you. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 1a9fbba | Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 7cba7ef | Positive thinking does not always change our circumstances, but it will always change us. When we are able to think right about tough situations, then our journeys through life become | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 77f2248 | The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 1d3b095 | There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself." --Andrew Carnegie" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| d91310c | Earlier in my life, I have to admit, I was often guilty of this error. I wanted to take an idea from seed thought to solution before sharing it with anyone, even the people it would most impact. I did this both at work and at home. But over the years, I have learned that you can go much farther with a team than you can go alone. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 45f41b6 | Good leaders ask great questions that inspire others to dream more, think more, learn more, do more, and become more. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 6abb2f4 | For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That's the Law of Significance. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 5195eb4 | Good things happen to a team when a player takes the place where he adds the most value. Great things happen when all the players on the team take the role that maximizes their strengths--their talent, skill, and experience. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 7672857 | So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. , , , , , &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with u.. | august-krönig bernoulli clausius curiosity daniel-bernoulli herapath james-joule james-prescott-joule john-herapath joule kronig matter motion physics property rudolf-clausius rudolf-gottlieb rudolf-julius-emanuel-clausius science temperature | James Clerk Maxwell | |
| 0f99e43 | I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what's really important and what isn't. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, "When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| c124fe7 | lqd@ hm lmsy'wlwn `n lrw'y@ ltb`yn Glb an l ystTy`wn rw'y@ lmstqbl km yrh lqy'd . | leadership القائد القيادة | John C. Maxwell | |
| e625529 | God had to break Jacob to make him useful. In the breaking process, Jacob--the deceiving "heel-catcher"--became Israel, a "prince with God" who purposed to serve God rather than himself. Natural leaders often need to be broken. Consider your natural ability to lead a gift from God, but your character a gift to present back to God. Remember: Every time you stand up under the weight of adversity, you are being prepared, as Jacob was, to bette.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4feb406 | Improvement is impossible without change. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| f9f3922 | Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie--unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you are holding anything in your craving for satisfaction right now, would you be willing to acknowledge it as a lie? Even if you feel you can't let go of it right this moment, would you lift it before Him--perhaps literally lifting your fisted hand as a symbol--and confess it as an idol? God does not condemn you. .. | Beth Moore | ||
| ed1c658 | Your Promised Land is the place where God's personalized promises over your life become a living reality rather than a theological theory. | Beth Moore | ||
| 4fa841b | If my Father says something about me, even if I cannot see it yet, I can rest assured it is so . . . and begin to put on that truth . . . and walk in it. I can no longer blame someone else for how I view myself. I cannot make the old excuse "that's just the way I am" because it is no longer "the way I am." I take back the stolen ground by simply being in relationship with my Father. His holy genes are now part of my inheritance from Him. I .. | Beth Moore | ||
| 7060006 | Charles Spurgeon's words: "You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy." | Beth Moore | ||
| 889d044 | We must remember we don't stand in victory because of our faith. We stand in victory because of our God. Faith in faith is pointless. Faith in a living, active God moves mountains. | Beth Moore | ||
| 574303a | When we're most exhausted, we're expending more energy fighting the enemy than we are seeking God's presence. More than you seek to win, seek Christ! More than you seek to defeat the enemy, seek his foe! More than you seek victory, seek the Victor! | Beth Moore | ||
| 6799f7d | Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,' says the Lord, who has compassion on you. | Beth Moore | ||
| 3585d68 | victory is not determined as much by what we've been delivered from as by what we've been delivered to. | Beth Moore |