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| 004c61d | Indeed, excessive stimulation seems to impede learning: a recent study found that people learn better after a quiet stroll through the woods than after a noisy walk down a city street. Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scie.. | Susan Cain | ||
| a3019d6 | I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has.. | Susan Cain | ||
| b661bf7 | She lied to me today," Archie said. "A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible." | lying teenager | Chelsea Cain | |
| 80a5edb | It was only when God paired him up with his extroverted brother Aaron that Moses agreed to take on the assignment. Moses would be the speechwriter, the behind-the-scenes guy, the Cyrano de Bergerac; Aaron would be the public face of the operation. "It will be as if he were your mouth," said God, "and as if you were God to him." | Susan Cain | ||
| 5f54fb0 | If a high-reactive toddler breaks another child's toy by mistake, studies show, she often experiences a more intense mix of guilt and sorrow than a lower-reactive child would. ...but high-reactive kids seem to see and feel things more. | Susan Cain | ||
| 1427dff | When your conscientiousness impels you to take on more than you can handle, you begin to lose interest, even in tasks that normally engage you. You risk your physical health. 'Emotional labor,' which is the effort we make to control and change our own emotions, is associated with stress, burnout, and even physical symptoms like and increase in cardiovascular disease. | stress emotional-labor introvert | Susan Cain | |
| 860fec5 | We consume indie music and films, and generate our own online content. We "think different" (even if we got the idea from Apple Computer's famous ad campaign)." | Susan Cain | ||
| 3d3d34b | They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions. | Susan Cain | ||
| aa6019d | Keep in mind the words of Sir Winston Churchill: 'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. | Susan Cain | ||
| cfe54d5 | I want to change the world in my own way. So I do stuff that's artificial. I don't really like being the guest at someone else's party, because then I have to be entertaining. But I'll host parties because it puts you at the center of things without actually being a social person. | Susan Cain | ||
| 8c1026e | mjry mn w m`shwq mr pyn nyst hrchh aGz ndrd npdhyrd njm | Hafez | ||
| e8ab144 | For as you talk of God, I see great parades with wildly colorful bands Streaming from your mind and heart, Carrying wonderful and secret messages To every corner of this world. | Hafez | ||
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| 7e5c134 | taarpr o, eto bhu haajaar bchr preo, suury kkhno caaNdke ble naa, 'tomaar ruperchttaa to aamaari daan' / styikaarer bhaalbaasaa to emni hyy, bhaalbaasaar aaloyy saaraa aakaash bhese yaayy / translated by - Professon Khair Jahan Sogra, IBA, University of Dhaka | Hafez | ||
| efae1be | Hicbir sey zekayi tutkulu bir kusku kadar bileyemez. Hicbir sey olgunlasmamis bir zihnin butun olanaklarini karanlikta kaybolan bir iz kadar harekete geciremez. | yakıcı-sır | Stefan Zweig | |
| d1734a0 | yet it may serve to show that courage is often nothing but inverted weakness. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| ae190dc | There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness ...; and the other, the only kind that counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| f9bc909 | Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 4c26493 | What a mercy, I thought, that the crippled, the maimed, those whom Fate has cheated, at least in sleep have no knowledge of the shapeliness or unshapeliness of their bodies, | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 4d8a140 | Od onog ondasnjeg covjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog dozivljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i hladno, i mogu ga opisati kao prijatelja o kojem znam mnogo i sve ono sto je bitno, ali ja uopce vise nisam taj covjek. Mogao bih pricati o njemu, prekoravati ga ili ga osudivati a da uopce ne osjetim da je on jednom bio sastavni dio mene. | man self-awareness past | Stefan Zweig | |
| 15ef503 | It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 66f3f7e | And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I would try to persuade him to devote himself first to the work of someone greater, interpreting or translating him. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 94395ae | My child died last night--and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow, strange, hulking, black-clad men bringing a coffin, and they will put him in it, my poor boy, my only child. | child-death coffin letter-from-an-unknown-woman | Stefan Zweig | |
| 7d67a7f | They did nothing--other than subjecting us to complete nothingness. For, as is well known, nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| ed3b0be | Istedigimiz ve bizi mutlu eden bir hayati mi yasiyoruz yoksa istenilen ve cevremizdekileri mutlu eden bir hayati mi? Insanlarin takdirini kazanmak matah bir sey mi? Hata sandiklarimiz gercek birer hata mi? | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 7df6b77 | He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future would not speak to him again, revealing the present to him as well as the past. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 307054a | Soz konusu baskalarinin derdi olunca nasil da daha zeki, daha nesnel oluruz. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| e976171 | The end of the war brought the closing of the borders cutting off Austria's coal supply from Czechoslovakia, leaving the Austrians at peace but hungry, cold, and vulnerable to tuberculosis and a virulent form of influenza (Grosskurth, 1991, p. 82). Writer Stefan Zweig described postwar Vienna as "an uncertain, gray, and lifeless shadow of the former imperial monarchy" (qtd. in Gay, 1988, p. 380)." | Daniel Benveniste | ||
| beab43d | C'est seulement a partir de ce moment que je commencai a comprendre (ce que taisent la plupart du temps les ecrivains) que les malades, les estropies, les gens laids, fanes, fletris, les etres physiquement inferieurs aiment au contraire avec plus de passion et de violence, que les gens heureux et bien portants ; ils aiment d'un amour fanatique, sombre, aucune passion sur terre n'est plus violente et avide que celle de ces desesperes, de ces.. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| c321e55 | The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room. | warning humanity optimism awaiting aware banish cheap-optimism dangers danger nonexistent supper unwelcome awareness human-beings cowardice self-deception instinct food | Stefan Zweig | |
| 9dbe313 | tri p'ti biakh kanen ot golemi vestnitsi da otida v armiiata kato tekhen korespondent. No vseki vid reportazh po zad'lzhenie iziskvashe da se predstavia voinata v izkliuchitelno polozhitelen i patriotichen dukh, a az biakh dal kletva - spazikh ia do 1940 godina - da ne pisha nikoga ni duma, s koiato da odobria voinata ili s koiato da unizha druga natsiia. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 90c4c37 | only bookworms get excited over other bookworms | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 63e5e8c | But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink? | Marilyn French | ||
| b0124a0 | They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex is more threatening to us than aggression. There have been strict rules about sex since the beginning of written rules, and even before, if we can believe myth. I think that's because it's in sex that men feel most vulnerable. In war they can hype themselves up, or they have a weapon. Sex means being literally naked and exposing your feelings.. | violence war sex men men-s-fears men-suck vulnerability | Marilyn French | |
| 6df4ce2 | I've known for a long time that hypocrisy is the secret of sanity. You mustn't let them know you know. | Marilyn French | ||
| 161ad3e | One advantage to being a despised species is that you have freedom, freedom to be any crazy thing you want. If you listen to a group of housewives talk, you'll hear a lot of nonsense, some of it really crazy. This comes, I think, from being alone so much, and pursuing your own odd train of thought without impediment, which some call discipline. The result is craziness, but also brilliance. Ordinary women come out with the damnedest truth. Y.. | Marilyn French | ||
| e7a5c2a | Smierc, ow proces alchemii na wspak, w ktorym zloto zycia ulega rozbiciu na cuchnace skladniki wyjsciowe. | Simon Beckett | ||
| d657447 | Historia naszego zycia, a czasem i smierci, jest zapisana w kosciach. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 30b0e48 | 'Daha cok anlat.' dedim. 'Cok. Elimden gelse seninle sekiz yuz elli iki bin kilometre hic durmadan konusurdum.' | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| 0958c9d | Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that gray vault. The sea. The sea has locked them up. The sea is History. First, there was the heaving oil, heavy as chaos; then, likea light at the end of a tunnel, the lantern of a caravel, and that was Genesis. Then there were the packed cries, the shit, the moaning: Exodus. Bone soldered by coral to bone, mosaics mantled by the benediction of the shar.. | Derek Walcott | ||
| 4652c15 | If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault. | Ken Follett | ||
| 452608a | It took him four months for him to die, three more than the oncologists had predicted. "Your dad's a fighter," they would say when we visited, which was a crock, because he'd already been soundly beaten. If he was at all aware, he had to be pissed at how long it was taking him to do something as simple as die. Dad doesn't believe in God, but he was a life-long member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| cd2fd22 | She holds on to a rung of the ladder while I tread water a foot or so in front of her. After a few moments, my eyes have adjusted to that I can look into hers. I flash back to Horry and Wendy, looking at each other in this exact spot a few hours ago, this haunted pool that seems to pull dead and buried love to its surface. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 03cc045 | We don't share our thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them, Hollywood adaptations of those thoughts dumbed down for the PG-13 crowd. | Jonathan Tropper |