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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a23e315 | Joy and resentment cannot coexist. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 6b3bcd6 | Joy never denies the sadness, but transforms it to a fertile soil for more joy. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3fd32d1 | Tobacco put food on our tables, steeples on our churches, stains on our fingers, spots on our lungs, and contradictions in our hearts. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 9f53735 | Racism was an important moral issue, one that the church needed to confront. Putting a black man in a position of honor and authority was a good thing, and if there was controversy over it, that was not a bad thing thing, either. People needed to work through these things, and not just in the abstract. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 1c8e72a | The Mind is the sole coefficient of Time and Space. - Wole Soyinka | Majemite Jaboro | ||
| 61c3e4e | Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form. I am aware that, in some minds, this tends to be regarded as a delicate subject. Let me declare very simply that I do not share such a sentiment. There is nothing in the least delicate about the slaughter of innocents. We all subscribe to the lofty notions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but, for some r.. | religion right-to-life | Wole Soyinka | |
| 3f9f9d0 | The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains the greatest carrier of the spores of fear, and the rhetoric of religion, with the hysteria it so readily generates, is fast becoming the readiest killing device of contemporary times. | fear terrorism | Wole Soyinka | |
| 633ce47 | It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment. | David Allen | ||
| 0505fe0 | Welcome to the real-life experience of "knowledge work," and a profound operational principle: you have to think about your stuff more than you realize but not as much as you're afraid you might. As Peter Drucker wrote: "In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is . . . the key question in making knowledge workers productive. And it is a question that demands ris.. | David Allen | ||
| 36414eb | Vy ne mozhete vyigrat' igru, pravil kotoroi ne znaete | David Allen | ||
| 3b02209 | It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company | psychology | David Allen | |
| 8cd5d87 | There are no interruptions, really--there are simply mismanaged occurrences. | David Allen | ||
| e71f388 | There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. | David Allen | ||
| eacab45 | Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment occurs, and wondrous things emerge. You become highly productive. You make things up, and you make them happen. | behavior productivity | David Allen | |
| f2dec48 | Merely having thoughts is one thing. Consciously feeding them is quite another. You are powerful all the time, by way of your attention and intention. The question is, Toward what are you pointing that power? | David Allen | ||
| 0ab8ea0 | There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done. | David Allen | ||
| 2c0c2ce | Too much information creates the same result as too little: you don't have what you need, when and in the way you need it. | David Allen | ||
| 6f036c8 | The cognitive scientists have now proven the reality of "decision fatigue"--that every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power." | David Allen | ||
| c7d7dee | Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action. --Bill Raeder | David Allen | ||
| 8da3244 | Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. Responding inappropriately to your e-mail, your thoughts about what you need to do, your children, or your boss will lead to less effective results than you'd like. Most people give either more or less attention to things than they deserve, simply because they don't operate with a mind like water. | David Allen | ||
| c004593 | you perfect results. What I can promise you is that you won't get it right if you don't commit to keep trying. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 625114d | In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 4ba1ca1 | The techniques that worked so extraordinarily well when applied to sustaining technologies, however, clearly failed badly when applied to markets or applications that did not yet exist. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 8f27a39 | Many blessings and friendships have come into our lives from our trying to share the gospel. But this blessing has been one of the best: Having the missionaries regularly help us as a family teach the gospel to new and old friends through the power of the Holy Ghost has profoundly affected the faith of our five children and brought the Spirit of God into our home. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 7d4045b | the best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 1f9d2e0 | the only way to do great work is to love what you do. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 3b5b621 | successful companies don't succeed because they have the right strategy at the beginning; but rather, because they have money left over after the original strategy fails, so that they can pivot and try another approach. Most of those that fail, in contrast, spend all their money on their original strategy--which is usually wrong. The | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 74981ab | None of that data, however, actually tells you why customers make the choices that they do. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| a896c89 | When I have my interview with God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage--a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics that matter in measuring my life. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| ffa5db8 | All distances are the same to those who don't meet. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| d1767ac | Old age is not the same thing as historical interest,' he said. 'Otherwise we should both of us be more interesting than we are. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| cc1912f | The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it's like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 310b5cd | Would you consider what I call the "inner eye" which opens for some of us, though not always when we want it or expect it - would you consider the inner eye as one of the sensory nerves?" | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| fcf9b18 | Dicen por ahi que esta usted a punto de abrir una libreria. Eso significa que no le importa enfrentarse a cosas inverosimiles. (...) - ?Por que cree que abrir una libreria es inverosimil? -le grito al viento-. ?La gente de Hardoborough no quiere comprar libros? - Han perdido el deseo por las cosas raras -dijo Raven mientras seguia limando-. Se venden mas arenques ahumados, por ejemplo que truchas estan medio ahumadas y tienen un sabor mas .. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| cde8776 | It was defeat, but defeat is less unwelcome when you are tired. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 39bf4c1 | Take the leap, they said. Live the billionaire's myth of immortality. And why not now, I thought. What else was there for Ross to acquire? Give the futurists their blood money and they will make it possible for you to live forever. The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement. | cultural-myths futurists postmodern | Don DeLillo | |
| 7874ff6 | And so this added consideration - that she never get pregnant - contributed to the moderation of their coupling, which was almost always managed under conditions harsh enough to win the approval of New England's founding fathers | John Irving | ||
| 3160ef3 | De alguna manera -habia argumentado Garp- la vida es demasiado. La vida es un folletin melodramatico no apto para menores, John | John Irving | ||
| 9b32675 | Katya laughed and shrugged. She was a hired girl; she said such things on order. Much of her life was this sort of semiskilled playing to other people, usually older people, with the hope of making them like her; making them feel that she was valuable to them; wresting some of their power from them, if but fleetingly. It was like provoking a boy or a man to want you. That could be risky, as Katya well knew. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 9edd761 | During these mad dashes to the wall phone in the kitchen she hadn't time to fall but with fantastical grace and dexterity wrenched herself upright in midfall and continued running (dogs whimpering, yapping hysterically in her wake, cats scattering wide-eyed and plume-tailed) before the telephone ceased it's querulous ringing--though frequently she was greeted with nothing more than a derisive dial tone, in any case. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| bdf22c0 | Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest. | end fairy-tales suggest words | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 399ed3d | A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| b4c033a | I had been reading Wittgenstein. There are no philosophical problems, only linguistic misunderstandings. Was this so? If so, why write at such length about it? I could understand [his] attraction to such a philosophy. Spartan, rigorous. Surpassingly skeptical. Well, good: philosophers should be skeptical. (No one else is: the mass of mankind is credulous as a gigantic infant, willing to suck any teat.) | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 2457013 | She would become, through the years, a woman who expected the worst, to relieve herself of the anxiety of hope. She would become a woman of calm, fatalistic principles, anticipating her life with the equanimity of a weather forecaster. | Joyce Carol Oates |