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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b6d456a | Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is already home because she figured out a faster way to get things done. | Jason Fried | ||
| b7c657f | If no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.) | Jason Fried | ||
| 626dd20 | Whenever you can, swap "Let's think about it" for "Let's decide on it." Commit to making decisions. Don't wait for the perfect solution. Decide and move forward." | Jason Fried | ||
| 3eddd8c | Kylo had rummaged through these hopes and fears, things he had no right to. But as he searched, something had changed. Even as he callously rifled through her mind, he had somehow revealed his own. Rey found herself in his mind even as he invaded hers. She felt his rage, like a ruinous storm that filled his head, and his hatred, and his lust to dominate and humiliate those who wronged him. But she also felt his hurt, and his loneliness. And.. | force-connection kylo-ren rey reylo | Jason Fry | |
| 570e3ae | Time-management hacks, life hacks, sleep hacks, work hacks. These all reflect an obsession with trying to squeeze more time out of the day, but rearranging your daily patterns to find more time for work isn't the problem. Too much shit to do is the problem. | Jason Fried | ||
| f08ea2f | Failure most of all. The greatest teacher failure is. | Jason Fry | ||
| a3fc044 | Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed | Jason Fried | ||
| 47ac49a | It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 1231ad1 | Don't get me wrong. Sacramento is a lovely place, particularly for those with a fondness for methamphetamines. For the meth-addled, Sacramento had conveniently placed a Greyhound bus station just yards from the statehouse where Austria's finest was sworn in as governor of the great state of California. | meth sacramento | J. Maarten Troost | |
| dfd973d | I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I'd done before. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| b86e75b | Nevertheless, while I may not have completely understood what Holy Communion was all about, Catholicism did allow me to see the nuances in cannibalism. Eating the flesh of another human being, I understood, might not always be a really, really bad thing to do. If you were a good Catholic, you had some every Sunday. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| b96ce3c | The day I arrived in Yakutsk with my colleague Peter Osnos of The Washington Post, it was 46 below. When our plane landed, the door was frozen solidly shut, and it took about half an hour for a powerful hot-air blower- standard equipment at Siberian airports- to break the icy seal. Stepping outside was like stepping onto another planet, for at those low temperatures nothing seems quite normal. The air burns. Sounds are brittle. Every breath.. | winter forty-below siberia cold russia | David K. Shipler | |
| eabebe9 | Hadn't retired reporter Stan warned him of how protective Cosimo was of his granddaughters? What if the Carusos had discovered his identity and wanted to rub him out as they'd rubbed out his father? Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. | prayer hilarious | Christie Ridgway | |
| 6ed89b2 | Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. --ELIE WIESEL | Martha W. Hickman | ||
| 53d449a | Be careful in your relations with those in power; they draw you close or allow you to approach them only when they need you. They are your friends when your friendship is useful to them and affords them pleasure, but they forget you when you are in trouble. Elie Wiesel quoting Rabban Gamliel | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 519107f | Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| f2a140d | He was a past master of making himself seem insignificant, of seeming invisible. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 9f499d1 | How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar? | Elie Wiesel | ||
| da74079 | I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched helplessly as language became an obstacle. It became clear that it would be necessary to invent a new language. But how was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy? Hunger--thirst--fear--transport--selection--fire--chimney: these words all have intrinsic meaning, but in those times, they meant some.. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 3698a9a | Men to the left! Women to the right! Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| c085923 | Love that makes everything complicated. While hate simplifies everything. Hatred puts accents on things and beings, and on what separates them. Love erases accents. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 3a812e3 | The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 3d11e08 | Nobody asked anyone for help. One died because one had to. No point in making trouble. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 14973f7 | To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. SOMETIMES | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 76d6c1c | Then he smiled. I shall always remember that smile. What world did it come from? Heavy snow continued to fall over the corpses. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 3a5a7c0 | And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their r.. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| d727fc5 | I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 071cf70 | No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 36883bc | the torturer scores a victory over his victim when the latter, in the grip of doubt, begins to torture himself. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 12f1ea8 | In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 6dc0bc2 | Both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have lost too many sons and daughters and have shed too much blood. This must stop, and all attempts to stop it must be encouraged. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 349a411 | Robert Frost didn't like to explain his poems--and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its lungs. This does not mean, however, that poets shouldn't talk about their poetry, or that one shouldn't ask questions about it. Rather, it suggests that any discussion of poetry should celebrate its ultimate ineffability and in so doing lead one to further inquiry. I think of that wonderful scene from Elie Wiesel's memoir, , wh.. | poems poetry ineffability | Tony Leuzzi | |
| e87a1bc | We're in the presence of a good story when the flaw that shatters shalom is also the doorway to redemption... Whether it be our own flaw or the sin of others, God uses the raw material of sin to create the edifice of his redeemed glory. The point cannot be overemphasized: your plight is also your redemption. The Bible assumes that its stories are also our story... We are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Their stories are a paradigm of our own. Ea.. | shalom true-self | Dan B. Allender | |
| 6afce35 | The triggering event and resulting shame is worse than being rejected because rejection assumes a path by which to return to acceptability. The fear involved in shame is of permanent abandonment, or exile. Those who see our reprehensible core will be so disgusted and sickened that we will be a leper and an outcast forever. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 8df19e1 | Hope refuses to believe that the inevitable is so. What has always been and can't change is an illusion; if anything is true, it is that change is inevitable, not that the inevitable will not change. But evil caustically replies, Nonsense. It is what it is. You will only be more discouraged and frustrated until you accept reality. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| f907ee1 | The reluctant leader doesn't merely give accolades to others. It is her true joy to see others awaken to their potential and exceed their greatest dreams. It is the hope of every good teacher to have students who take their work further than the teacher was able to do. To be surpassed is the ideal. To be replaced is the goal, not a sign of failure. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| f0ecdf6 | We are what we choose. And we choose whatever our deepest passion compels us to be and to do. To understand the truth of this simple principle, we must examine choice's power to shape our character. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 2a95216 | We each see ourselves as being a certain kind of person with a specific set of values, beliefs, and dreams. In practice, however, we often are not what we want to be but instead end up choosing what others expect us to be. This is called our ought self. Avoid it. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| e8518b5 | Our ideal self is revealed in what we value (passion), how we understand the world (belief), and what we do to reach our ideal (behavior). Our passion, belief, and behavior fit together so intimately that I can say this with confidence: * What we do is what we really value. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| db30fcf | It's like each face was a sign like one of those "I'm Blind" signs the dago accordion players in Portland hung around their necks, only these signs say "I'm tired" or "I'm scared" or "I'm dying of a bum liver" or "I'm all bound up with machinery and people pushing me alla time." I can read all the signs, it don't make any difference how little the print gets." | Ken Kesey | ||
| 9546e2d | And like: "Why should one want to wake up dead anyway?" If the glorious birth-to-death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have . . . if our grand and exhilarating Fight of Life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway, compared to the eons of rounds before and after--then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?" | Ken Kesey | ||
| d678c18 | Azzal egyutt megprobaltam - mondja. - Annyi azert kitellett tolem, a budos istenit, hogy megprobaltam, nem igaz? | Ken Kesey | ||
| 7d3927c | Mostly, I'd just like to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time. | Ken Kesey | ||
| f0a1eef | All right. Then this is the whole shebang, boys, right here underfoot. Give up and admit it. | Ken Kesey |