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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5af9bf6 | The sectarian divisions which plagued Marxism are manifestations of an urge for purity which the Left would be better off without. | marxism patriotism puritanism purity sectarianism unity | Richard M. Rorty | |
| 162b674 | The pre-Sixties reformist Left, insofar as it concerned itself with oppressed minorities, did so by proclaiming that all of us -- black, white, and brown -- are Americans, and that we should respect one another as such. | Richard M. Rorty | ||
| bf97707 | The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 3f91ceb | Anybody can dream an impossible dream. But only a few find a dream that's possible. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 1d534cb | In my experience, survivors want the opportunity to teach and not be shunned because they went through something unknowable," Merle said." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 87f4878 | Less than six months after I started at Facebook, Mark and I sat down for my first formal review. One of the things he told me was that my desire to be liked by everyone would hold me back. He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| b92d7d1 | In 1970, American women were paid 59 cents for every dollar their male counterparts made. By 2010, women had protested, fought, and worked their butts off to raise that compensation to 77 cents for every dollar men made.10 As activist Marlo Thomas wryly joked on Equal Pay Day 2011, "Forty years and eighteen cents. A dozen eggs have gone up ten times that amount."11" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| b922ff1 | When a girl tries to lead, she is often labeled bossy. Boys are seldom called bossy because a boy taking the role of a boss does not surprise or offend. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| b9ed44f | After several rounds of interviews with Google's founders, they offered me a job. My bank account was diminishing quickly, so it was time to get back to paid employment, and fast. In typical--and yes, annoying--MBA fashion, I made a spreadsheet and listed my various opportunities in the rows and my selection criteria in the columns. I compared the roles, the level of responsibility, and so on. My heart wanted to join Google in its mission t.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8a573f3 | I told the members of the graduating class that they should be ambitious not just in pursuing their dreams but in aspiring to become leaders in their fields. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| e31402b | happiness is the frequency of positive experiences, not the intensity. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 2da8247 | She is very ambitious" is not a compliment in our culture." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| c691aca | Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 1c95599 | We are each unique ... which is why it is so wrong to be lumped together by stereotypes or viewed with narrowed expectations based on skin color or chromosomes. The irony is that dealing with this prejudice becomes our shared experience. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 88e34cd | A day of joy is fifteen minutes. A day of pain is fifteen years," he said. "No one pretends this is easy, but the job of life is to make those fifteen minutes into fifteen years and those fifteen years into fifteen minutes." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 9fc5474 | Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don't, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| eacb1c7 | Self-compassion isn't talked about as much as it should be, maybe because it's often confused with its troublesome cousins, self-pity and self-indulgence. Psychologist Kristin Neff describes self-compassion as offering the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to a friend. It allows us t respond to our own errors with conern and understanding rather than criticism and shame. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 39e0302 | We can joke, as Marlo Thomas did, that "a man has to be Joe McCarthy in order to be called ruthless. All a woman needs to do is put you on hold." Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few. If women held 50 percent of the top jobs, it would just not be possible to dislike that many people." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f2a596d | Your life's course should not be determined by doing what's safe and easy but by reaching for what's challenging and hard: the classes that seem impossible on the first day, but you study enough to pass ... the jobs you're not quite qualified for, but you work like crazy to acquire the skills ... the moments when you feel alone and overwhelmed, but you are brave enough to ask for help. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| ff82a11 | When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. | inspirational resilience | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 0692f25 | Believing it will all work out helps it all work out." A" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 894b906 | Several people asked questions to hear themselves talk. | Hemingway Ernest | ||
| 90148a9 | At last, someone was articulating exactly how I felt. Every time I was called on in class, I was sure that I was about to embarrass myself. Every time I took a test, I was sure that it had gone badly. And every time I didn't embarrass myself--or even excelled--I believed that I had fooled everyone yet again. One day soon, the jig would be up. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 459edfe | The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way," he said. "There are always things you can do better. It's a game of mistakes." Sports" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 3c7c379 | No one could have called Mr Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 28e0293 | If you really want to be totally accurate about it, the day that really changed Abby's life wasn't the day she discovered her power. It was the day Ben sang to her in the Telekinesis lab. | abby-carnelia ben singing | David Pogue | |
| 739b11a | During all that time I didn't see Willie. I didn't see him again until he announced in the Democratic primary in 1930. But it wasn't a primary. It was hell among the yearlings and the Charge of the Light Brigade and Saturday night in the back room of Casey's saloon rolled into one, and when the dust cleared away not a picture still hung on the walls. And there wasn't any Democratic party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes and.. | Robert Penn Warren | ||
| 281b573 | There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love. | marriage relationships | Mike Mason | |
| 34d35a0 | I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs. | enthusiasm job vocation work | Geoff Dyer | |
| 8d2c311 | The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'. | contemporary documentary photography pretension | Geoff Dyer | |
| b5151eb | The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. | frustration lie life motivation | Geoff Dyer | |
| 8cf3268 | In the cramped confines of the toilet I had trouble getting out of my wet trousers, which clung to my legs like a drowning man. The new ones were quite complicated too in that they had more legs than a spider; either that or they didn't have enough legs to get mine into. The numbers failed to add up. Always there was one trouser leg too many or one of my legs was left over. From the outside it may have looked like a simple toilet, but once .. | drugs humor humour lmao travel | Geoff Dyer | |
| 548a653 | This hostility to unnatural sex had a demographic consequence of high importance. Puritan moralists condemned as unnatural any attempt to prevent conception within marriage. This was not a common attitude in world history. Most primitive cultures have practiced some form of contraception, often with high success. Iroquois squaws made diaphragms of birchbark; African slaves used pessaries of elephant dung to prevent pregnancy. European women.. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| ac89343 | Empirical studies show that New Zealanders are the most widely traveled people on the planet. The computer and the Internet have made a major difference. Insularity, distance, and isolation may have been important in an earlier period of New Zealand's history, but not today. The rapid progress of communications has wrought a revolution in the spatial condition of New Zealand, and yet its culture remains very distinctive. This fact suggests .. | David Hackett Fischer | ||
| fcdc07e | a bullock, backing in alarm from the halter, crashed its craggy behind into my midriff. The wind shot out of me in a sharp hiccup, then the animal decided to turn round in the narrow passage, squashing me like a fly against the railings. I was pop-eyed as it scrambled round; I wondered whether the creaking was coming from my ribs or the wood behind me. | James Herriot | ||
| bec8332 | own. I am sure that is what the family remembered best about me because of the way the mother's letter began. "Dear Vet with the bandaged finger ..." | James Herriot | ||
| a6ff9d4 | Old Herriot may be limited in some respects, but by God, he can wrap a cat. | James Herriot | ||
| cc5afc3 | You don't find cows with names any more and there aren't any farmers like Mr. Dakin, who somehow scratched a living from a herd of six milkers plus a few calves, pigs and hens. | James Herriot | ||
| d2f597f | Glamour might still have clung to a rakehell who abducted noble damsels, but no glamour remained about a man who had been pushed into a pond in full ball-dress. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 84364bd | My God, Justin, do you hate him so?" "Bah!" said his Grace..."does one hate an adder? Because it is venomous and loathsome one crushes it underfoot, as I shall crush this Comte." | cold-hatred death hatred revenge | Georgette Heyer | |
| 058ec7c | It was like a bad dream, in which people one knew quite well behaved fantastically, and one was powerless to escape from some dreadful doom. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 69ab86f | You know how comfortably you go on as a bachelor, and how very much you would dislike to be tied to a wife's apron-strings." He laughed a little ruefully, but denied it. "I shouldn't dislike being tied to your apron-strings." | heyer love proposal rejection romance | Georgette heyer | |
| 1a69082 | Well, I can understand that that must be very comfortable, for if you don't care for anybody or anything you can't be cast into dejection, or become sick with apprehension, or even get into high fidgets. On the other hand, I shouldn't think you could ever be aux anges either. It wouldn't do for me: it would be too flat!" She turned her head to survey him again, and suddenly smiled. "I daresay that is why you are so bored!" "I am frequently.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 9970af3 | Ten or twelve couples? No, no, Dassett would not be talking of red carpets and awnings for such a paltry affair as that!' said his lordship. These ominous words struck a chill into his wife's soul. | Georgette Heyer |