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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| adc4eb4 | Rules are made for people, not people for rules, | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| fbb79e5 | How did all this happen? Isn't it wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born! I'm not alone anymore! Do you realize what that means to me? | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 33bd446 | Do you think things always have an explanation?" "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c0159af | On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8250c12 | For me, this book activates both transparency and resistance. It urges us to open ourselves up to those hurts, those tribulations, those disappointments, those doubts, those uncertainties. All of which can be summarized as darkness. It walks us through that pain to a light within ourselves, sparking us to resist all that is not for our good and fight for a better way. Simply put, A Wrinkle in Time offers a glimpse of eternity | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 19a266f | Charles Wallace looked troubled. "I don't think it's that. It's being able to understand a sort of language, like sometimes if I concentrate very hard I can understand the wind talking with the trees. You tell me, you see, sort of inad--inadvertently. That's a good word, isn't it? I got Mother to look it up in the dictionary for me this morning. I really must learn to read, except I'm afraid it will make it awfully hard for me in school nex.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d20fdf6 | But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too. | language storytelling words writing | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| a33f552 | When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to do, then it doesn't matter if villages are destroyed by bombs; traffic deaths become statistics; starving babies can be forgotten when the television is turned off; and there will no longer be anybody who will read or write a poem or a story, who will look at or paint a picture, who will listen to or compose a symphony. .. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| fb2660c | In his movie The Seventh Continent, Michael Haneke depicts a normal middle-class family who, for no apparent reason, one day quit their jobs, destroy everything in their apartment, including all the cash they have just withdrawn from the bank, and commit suicide. The story, according to Haneke, was inspired by a true story of an Austrian middle-class family who committed collective suicide. As Haneke points out in a subsequent interview, th.. | István Aranyosi | ||
| 9631834 | Glass shot an irritated glance at Red, who had an uncanny knack for spotting problems and an utter inability for crafting solutions. | Michael Punke | ||
| 07f8873 | Charlie's Almanack, Influence, and Man's Search for Meaning, among others The habit of listening to single songs on repeat for focus (page 507) Nearly everyone has done some form of "spec" work (completing projects on their own time and dime, then submitting them to prospective buyers) The belief that "failure is not durable" (see Robert Rodriguez, page 628) or variants thereof Almost every guest has been able to take obvious "weaknesses" a.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 453a344 | The very word 'success' has become contaminated by our ideas of someone extraordinary, very rich, etc., and that's really unhelpful.... Ultimately, to be properly successful is to be at peace as well. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4505cba | What are three tests or practices from the military that civilians could use to help develop mental toughness?": STAN: "The first is to push yourself harder than you believe you're capable of. You'll find new depth inside yourself. The second is to put yourself in groups who share difficulties, discomfort. We used to call it 'shared privation.' You'll find that when you have been through that kind of difficult environment, that you feel mor.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4113475 | Life is too short to be small. --BENJAMIN DISRAELI | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b66331f | Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| aa0dd27 | There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 514a4d4 | You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 93f904d | I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1e10d34 | The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom. With | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0ec01f3 | Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 13f61dd | A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. | incentives | Timothy Ferriss | |
| 0e18ddb | The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who've maximized 1 or 2 strengths. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 113ac44 | Strauss, Neil: "'The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.'--Norman Vincent Peale" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 24745ac | Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1e9c068 | the key to not feeling rushed is remembering that lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take time to stop and smell the roses, or--in this case--to count the pea pods. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 91e8669 | The best defense is a good offense. --DAN GABLE, Olympic gold medalist in wrestling and the most successful coach in history; personal record: 299-6-3, with 182 pins | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 73151d0 | Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. --OSCAR WILDE, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8610e93 | Many students come to me full of wonderful intentions hoping to change the world; they plan to spend their time helping the poor and disadvantaged. I tell them to first graduate and make a lot of money, and only then figure out how best to help those in need. Too often students can't meaningfully help the disadvantaged now, even if it makes them feel good for trying to. I have seen so many former students in their late 30s and 40s strugglin.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0fd1bc4 | Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. | advice bruce-lee inspirational | Timothy Ferriss | |
| afce5ce | How is it possible that all the people in the world need exactly 8 hours to accomplish their work? It isn't. 9-5 is arbitrary. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5cc1d56 | Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. --NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, The Prince | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b0d4352 | Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 13cee74 | Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. | death hope inspirational life motivatonal | Timothy Ferriss | |
| dfcb890 | There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway." Either way, nothing happens. --YVON CHOUINARD,7 founder of Patagonia" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 78d01f7 | My maxim comes from Samuel Beckett, a personal hero of mine: 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 93bbf5c | Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. --PAULA POUNDSTONE | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b844fd6 | The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. --THICH NHAT HANH | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4dac25d | Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money - a lot more money - by doing half of what you are doing now. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 09f4ca2 | One of the most universal causes of self-doubt and depression: trying to impress people you don't like. Stressing to impress is fine, but do it for the right people - those you want to emulate. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 44b916f | Don't confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple--many are just emotionally difficult to act upon. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6bf730a | you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 16d8fc5 | Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. --MALCOLM X, Malcolm X Speaks | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b58a9ee | Problems, as a rule, solve themselves or disappear if you remove yourself as an information bottleneck and empower others. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fe25b35 | What gets measured gets managed. --PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author | Timothy Ferriss |