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946749a No time is no excuse Jason Fried
4d2028c How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it. Jason Fried
c452b0e Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway. Jason Fried
57e562b Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch. Jason Fried
bc3bade Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative. Jason Fried
b93076f Teach and you'll form a bond you just don't get from traditional marketing tactics. Buying people's attention with a magazine or online banner ad is one thing. Earning their loyalty by teaching them forms a whole different connection. They'll trust you more. They'll respect you more. Even if they don't use your product, they can still be your fans. Jason Fried
9aeb152 R2-D2 squawked derisively. "Hey, sacred island," Luke said. "Watch the language." Jason Fry
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.. cold forty-below russia siberia winter 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. hilarious prayer 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.. ineffability poems poetry 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