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| 63d49bc | THE URGENCY ADDICTION Some of us get so used to the adrenaline rush of handling crises that we become dependent on it for a sense of excitement and energy. How does urgency feel? Stressful? Pressured? Tense? Exhausting? Sure. But let's be honest. It's also sometimes exhilarating. We feel useful. We feel successful. We feel validated. And we get good at it. Whenever there's trouble, we ride into town, pull out our six shooter, do the varmint.. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 941938a | This power of choice means that we are not merely a product of our past or of our genes; we are not a product of how other people treat us. They unquestionably influence us, but they do not determine us. We are self-determining through our choices. If we have given away our present to the past, do we need to give away our future also? | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| aa80fa3 | Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world... Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feeling to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| d3606de | Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 418b43b | By accepting people you're not condoning their weakness or agreeing with their opinion; you're simply affirming their intrinsic worth. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 7602228 | No matter how long we've walked life's pathway to mediocrity, we can always choose to switch paths. Always. It's never too late. We can find our voice. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 401b63b | Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." Personal responsibility, or proactivity, is fundamental to the first creation. Returning to the computer metaphor, Habit 1 says, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, .. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 80dcd60 | I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, | habits self-improvement | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 2d5b2a5 | Best way to predict your future is to create it. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 1727fa4 | You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind -- your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity -- is all that ends at death. | Dan Millman | ||
| 4fdcc7a | Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner -- a corner they never turned. And the source of it all was the human mind. | Dan Millman | ||
| f348aee | secret's value is not in what you know, but in what you do. | Dan Millman | ||
| 348c471 | Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors. -- Aunguttara Nikaya | Dan Millman | ||
| 792359c | We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song. But in that dance, and in that song, the most ancient rites of our conscience fulfill themselves in the awareness of being human. --Pablo Neruda, Toward the Splendid City | Dan Millman | ||
| 68bb538 | It was said in the First World War that the French fought for their country, the British fought for freedom of the seas, and the Americans fought for souvenirs. | Margaret Truman | ||
| c17d6c2 | The Congress ran off and left everything just as I expected they would do and now they are trying to blame me because they did nothing. I just don't believe people can be fooled that easily. | Margaret Truman | ||
| 021cf8b | Innovations usually begin life with an attempt to solve a specific problem, but once they get into circulation, they end up triggering other changes that would have been extremely difficult to predict. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 8ce8053 | Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking - and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works. | critical-thinking randomness | Steven Johnson | |
| 09eac68 | The march of technology expands the space of possibility around us, but how we explore that space is up to us. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 19cfb23 | Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn't appear for more than a hundred years. | innovation | Steven Johnson | |
| 344a713 | Humans had proven to be unusually good at learning to recognize visual patterns; we internalize our alphabets so well we don't even have to think about reading once we've learned how to do it. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 4f0f992 | That mix of order and anarchy is what we now call emergent behavior. | Steven Johnson | ||
| b3c5cc1 | Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, | Steven Johnson | ||
| 9e8f27d | An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence." We're blind to our blindness." | Steven Johnson | ||
| 2a349ff | But epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for posterity. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 7443ff4 | She had once more shown her talent for profiting by the unexpected, and dangerous theories as to the advisability of yielding to impulse were germinating under the surface of smiling attention which she continued to present to her companion. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1a12fa2 | She had been bored all the afternoon by Percy Gryce--the mere thought seemed to waken an echo of his droning voice--but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 576c193 | But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral strength: what she craved, and really felt herself entitled to, was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. Hitherto her intermittent impulses of resistance had sufficed to maintain her self-respect. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2e07146 | Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it's all snowed under. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 9571855 | Superficially so like them all, and so eager to outdo them in detachment and adaptability, ridiculing the prejudices he had shaken off, and the people to whom he belonged, he still kept, under his easy pliancy, the skeleton of old faiths and old fashions. "He talks every language as well as the rest of us," Susy had once said of him, "but at least he talks one language better than the others." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 21739ba | It was before him again in its completeness -- the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom to act which never made for romance. The strident setting of the restaurant, in which their table seemed set apart in a special glare of publicity, and the presence at it of little Dabham of the "Riviera Notes," .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| bfbf2f6 | and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes | Edith Wharton | ||
| 75db112 | He turned to me, full of a terrifying benevolence. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3a8ad89 | Ice vs. fire; free choice vs. necessity; weight vs. lightness; emptiness vs. meaning...speaking of emptiness, there was a time today when my whole body felt completely devoid of life and utterly without meaning. A character in one of Edith Wharton's novels says that "the real loneliness comes from all these kind faces who only ask one to pretend..." That is how I felt today, waiting anxiously for my afternoon pick-up, only to be let down, a.. | Sarah Emily Miano | ||
| 3cfd51a | Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey speck of a man compared with the ruthless magnificent fellow he had dreamed of being.... | Edith Wharton | ||
| 252f9f1 | I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is a hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits . . . and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 7c7d309 | But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to see it being gradually atrophied by those two world-wide enemies of the imagination, the wireless and the cinema. To a generation for whom everything which used to nourish the imagination because it had to be won by an effort, and then slowly assimilated, is now served up cooked, seasoned, and chopped into little bits, the creative facul.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 086f924 | She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 4395d5f | but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward")" | countryside rural rural-life | Edith Wharton | |
| f67d6ea | Mr. Gryce was like a merchant whose warehouses are crammed with an unmarketable commodity. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 530e7b7 | All the long misery of his baffled past, of his youth of failure, hardship and vain effort, rose up in his soul in bitterness and seemed to take shape before him in the woman who at every turn had barred his way. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c5a711e | But hitherto she had been like some young captive brought up in a windowless palace whose painted walls she takes for the actual world. Now the palace had been shaken to its base, and and through a cleft in the walls she looked out upon life. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5ce6cb1 | women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 771edc2 | Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood. | Edith Wharton |