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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5676e4c | Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| cfb9484 | Don't charge the mound. Once you agree to fight, you lost already. Don't start none, won't be none. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 81f0858 | I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 3139d5f | Neither of us ever threw anything away. We made a lot of mix tapes while we were together. Tapes for making out, tapes for dancing, tapes for falling asleep. Tapes for doing the dishes, for walking the dog. I kept them all. I have them piled up on my bookshelves, spilling out of my kitchen cabinets, scattered all over the bedroom floor. I don't even have pots or pans in my kitchen, just that old boom-box on the counter, next to the sink. So.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| f7f913f | The country singers understand. It's always that one song that gets you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. Country singers are always twanging about that number on the jukebox they can't stand to hear you play, the one with the memories. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 354e614 | What I get out of karaoke is a little weirder than mere musical competence. It's a love ritual that keeps me coming back, craving more, because this is where the songs are. And the songs are full of stories. Every one we sing is charged up with memories of the past or dreams of the future. Every song reminds me of good times or bad times. Yet they all hold surprises. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 643dc1d | To enter into that karaoke mindset, you have to leave behind all your notions of good or bad, right or wrong, in tune or out of tune. The kara in the word karaoke is the same as the one in karate, which means 'empty hand.' They're both 'empty' arts because you have no weapons and no musical instruments to hide behind--only courage, your heart, and your will to inflict pain. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| c52ca0e | Girls are the White Album and they all have Revolution 9's. They have all that stuff you wish you could edit out. When you fall in love with a girl, she's the bloody White Album. That is what you whisper to yourself, when you don't understand her at all. You just keep telling yourself, she's the bloody Beatles White Album and there's only one of her. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 65a08bc | Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all this garbage. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 565eb94 | When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to blow? | Rob Sheffield | ||
| cd994c8 | But when you're a teenage boy, you can be narrow-minded about things that are girlie, things that are frivolous, things that are pop. Boys always want to be taken seriously, and they always want to transcend the tawdry emotion of the pop singer -- it's a fairly standard response to the rigors of young manhood... This isn't so different from how people talk about culture now. Rock epics are for boys; pop hits are for girls. When you're a boy.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 72d3257 | I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned, the '90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps. Every note from those years is charged with life for me now. For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes on the car radio, I fin.. | pearl-jam | Rob Sheffield | |
| 55ee1da | Nothing connects to the moment like music. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 8061051 | Forgiveness is letting go of the need to feel like a victim. Work on it. You'll lighten your load--the load of negativity you carry around. | Maria Shriver | ||
| 6cbe1e8 | Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard. | lessons inspiration inspirational inferiority inferiority-complex | Maria Shriver | |
| 4cd9445 | I signaled when Owen's wife was linked to him, who was linked to Yelena." Valek paused, marveling at the intricacies of magical communication. Ixia really needed to find a way to keep up." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| e7abb3a | Hay una sola cosa que deseo hacer cuando me liberen. Estar contigo | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| a34e8ea | I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopover. Let them wonder. | wonder judgements yelena-zaltana outcast perceptions | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 4c71c3a | But how many times can you upset someone and still return to normal? Isn't there a point when the person gives up on you? | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 16b68bc | Valek glowed with his own inner fire. For him, I would risk the flames' heat. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 1a134c5 | He pulled back and I recognized the eagerness in his blue eyes. "Interesting problem, though. Could be a bit tricky." "Free Leif and then you can play," I said. He grinned. "Promise?" "If I don't get to them first." "That's my girl." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 6a04315 | You said I was afraid to come back to the Keep. Well--" I spread my arms wide, flinging drops of water onto Leif's green tunic "--here I am." "You are here. I'll grant you that. But are you unafraid?" "I already have a mother and a Story Weaver. Your job is to be the annoying older brother. Stick to what you know." "Ohhh. I've hit a nerve." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 3b1992f | Ari's coming with backup. Should I pretend we barely survived without his help or gloat that we didn't need him at all?" "Tough decision," I said. "You can't go wrong with either one," Kade said. "You guys are no fun. I have to go with the gloating. But no mention of that magic stuff. It ruins the effect." Janco rushed off." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 6c88bef | I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat. | spying spy fight | Maria V. Snyder | |
| c9a6b39 | You have my heart, my soul, my life. I'm an empty shell without you. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 47b97f3 | I've got a splinter that I can't get out. It's killing me and affecting my duty." "Uh-huh." I examined the minuscule speck that could be dirt." | nurse healer liv splinter | Maria V. Snyder | |
| a2209dc | I had realized my fears and acknowledged my mistakes. | fear mistake | Maria V. Snyder | |
| ba0b151 | You certainly are real. A real pain in the ass, but that's who I fell in love with. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 562799c | I had to admit there was one good thing about staying in the south. Instead of being the only person with tan skin, I finally looked as if I belonged. Living in the north with the pale-skinned Ixians for so long, though, had not prepared me for such a variety of brown skin tones. Much to my embarrassment, I had found myself gawking at the deeper mahogany skin colors when we first entered Sitia. | yelena-zaltana | Maria V. Snyder | |
| a016f93 | Lincoln discovered Generals Grant and Sherman. Roosevelt had Eisenhower and Bradley. I found David Petraeus and Ray Odierno. | George W. Bush | ||
| c7046da | He had a collection of science-fiction films on DVD and Blu-ray discs, and although he said he'd seen most of them before, Caitlin was surprised to discover how many of the cases were still shrink-wrapped. "Why'd you buy them if you weren't going to watch them?" she asked. He looked at the tall, thin cabinets that contained the movies and seemed to ponder the question. "My childhood was on sale," he said at last, "so I bought it." | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 540dd14 | As laser-bright moments; diamond-hard memories; crisp and clear. A future lived, a future savored, a future of moments so sharp and pointed that they would sometimes cut and sometimes glint so brightly it would hurt to contemplate them, but sometimes, too, would be joyous, an absolute, pure, unalloyed joy, the kind of joy he hadn't felt much if at all lo these twenty-one years. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
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| 225b23c | At the Foley Center for the Study of Lives at Northwestern University, McAdams studies the stories that people tell about themselves. We all write our life stories as if we were novelists, McAdams believes, with beginnings, conflicts, turning points, and endings. And the way we characterize our past setbacks profoundly influences how satisfied we are with our current lives. Unhappy people tend to see setbacks as contaminants that ruined an .. | Susan Cain | ||
| f7a7697 | Soft power is quiet persistence. | graciousness humility | Susan Cain | |
| 3fde374 | Highly sensitive people tend to be keen observers who look before they leap. They arrange their lives in ways that limit surprises. They're often sensitive to sights, sounds, smells, pain, coffee. They have difficulty when being observed (at work, say, or performing at a music recital) or judged for general worthiness (dating, job interviews). But there are new insights. The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their or.. | Susan Cain | ||
| ae12aad | the orchid hypothesis" by David Dobbs in a wonderful article in The Atlantic. This theory holds that many children are like dandelions, able to thrive in just about any environment. But others, including the high-reactive types that Kagan studied, are more like orchids: they wilt easily, but under the right conditions can grow strong and magnificent." | Susan Cain | ||
| d6cbdb3 | it takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise, | Susan Cain | ||
| a93e96c | A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent van Gogh. I prefer to think that the planet needs athletes, philosophers, sex symbols, painters, scientists; it needs the warmhearted, the hardhearted, the coldhearted, and the weakhearted. It needs those who can devote their lives to studying how many droplets of water are secreted by the salivary glands of dogs under .. | Susan Cain | ||
| 16fcaaf | Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases: groups of nine generate fewer and poorer ideas compared to groups of six, which do worse than groups of four. The "evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups," writes the organizational psychologist Adrian Furnham. "If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or ef.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 25fad38 | You're wrong, you know," Susan said. "She doesn't belong here. I'm against the death penalty. I don't think the state should be in the business of killing people. I think it's wrong. And it's hypocritical. Mostly, I just think it's mean. Gretchen Lowell ? She is the exception. She deserves to die. If we kill one person, one criminal in the history of the world, it should be her." Susan paused, reconsidering. "And Hitler. Her, and Hitler". P.. | susan-ward | Chelsea Cain | |
| 1563590 | No!" Kagan exclaims. "Every behavior has more than one cause. Don't ever forget that! For every child who's slow to warm up, yes, there will be statistically more high-reactives, but you can be slow to warm up because of how you spent the first three and a half years of your life! When writers and journalists talk, they want to see a one-to-one relationship--one behavior, one cause. But it's really important that you see, for behaviors like.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 5b49a3f | The word personality didn't exist in English until the eighteenth century, and the idea of "having a good personality" was not widespread until the twentieth." | Susan Cain |