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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d8de119 | lsh`wr b'nk Tby`y l'y ftr@ Twyl@ mmtd@ y`Tyk amlan ytDH -tqryban bthbt- 'nh mktwb@ `l~ lm! | manic-depression mental-health mental-illness | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 8c749f5 | During the Renaissance there was a renewed interest in the relationship between genius, melancholia, and madness. A stronger distinction was made between sane melancholies of high achievement and individuals whose insanity prevented them from using their ability. The eighteenth century witnessed a sharp change in attitude; balance and rational thought, rather than "inspiration" and emotional extremes, were seen as the primary components of .. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 17084e5 | lost a great innocence when I understood that I and my mind were not going to be on good terms for the rest of my life. I can't tell you how tired I am of character-building experiences. But I treasure this part of me; whoever loves me loves me with this in it. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 4c309f3 | God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me. | anxiety depression kay-redfield-jamison mental-illness | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| dc4c11b | Given that, it turned out to be unnervingly easy to keep my friends and family at psychological bay: "To be sure," wrote Hugo Wolf, "I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds." | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 2af0867 | Profound melancholia is a day-in, day-out, night-in, night-out, almost arterial level of agony. | melancholia mental-illness | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| de5625f | Grief, however, creates a strange sensitivity. The world is too intense to tolerate: a veil, a drink, another anesthetic is required to blot out the ache of what remains. One sees too much and feels it, as Robert Lowell puts it, "with one skin-layer missing." | grief intensity loss sensitivity sorrow | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 796f13b | I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse. Not just any horse, but an unrelentingly stubborn and blindingly neurotic one, a sort of equine Woody Allen, but .. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 3049f6c | In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| ee57176 | The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense ... and then failed, miserably, in every regard. | irony scifi | C.S. Friedman | |
| b5da5ff | When our audiences are skeptical, the more we try to dominate them, the more they resist. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 1d06516 | the higher the psychological safety in a unit, the fewer errors they made. Why? In the units that lacked psychological safety, health care professionals hid their errors, fearing retribution. As a result, they weren't able to learn from their mistakes. In the units with high psychological safety, on the other hand, reporting errors made it possible to prevent them moving forward. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| a760e0c | psychological safety--the belief that you can take a risk without being penalized or punished. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 6e1658a | On matters of style, swim with the current," Thomas Jefferson allegedly advised, but "on matters of principle, stand like a rock." The pressure to achieve leads us to do the opposite. We find surface ways of appearing original--donning a bow tie, wearing bright red shoes--without taking the risk of actually being original. When it comes to the powerful ideas in our heads and the core values in our hearts, we censor ourselves." | Adam M. Grant | ||
| eb3d3ce | Overall, the evidence suggests that liking continues to increase as people are exposed to an idea between ten and twenty times, with additional exposure still useful for more complex ideas. Interestingly, | Adam M. Grant | ||
| ad918e7 | But as a Puerto Rican woman, she belonged to not one but two minority groups. New research suggests that her double minority status may have amplified the costs and the benefits of speaking up. Management researcher Ashleigh Rosette, who is African American, noticed that she was treated differently when she led assertively than were both white women and black men. Working with colleagues, she found that double minority group members faced d.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 16b4d92 | To get Firefox or Chrome, you have to demonstrate some resourcefulness and download a different browser. Instead of accepting the default, you take a bit of initiative to seek out an option that might be better. And that act of initiative, however tiny, is a window into what you do at work. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| f7209e8 | Rice professor Erik Dane finds that the more expertise and experience people gain, the more entrenched they become in a particular way of viewing the world. He points to studies showing that expert bridge players struggled more than novices to adapt when the rules were changed, and that expert accountants were worse than novices at applying a new tax law. As we gain knowledge about a domain, we become prisoners of our prototypes. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| b625e98 | Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."1 Scott Adams" | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 0901897 | It's widely assumed that there's a tradeoff between quantity and quality--if you want to do better work, you have to do less of it--but this turns out to be false. In fact, when it comes to idea generation, quantity is the most predictable path to quality. "Original thinkers," Stanford professor Robert Sutton notes, "will come up with many ideas that are strange mutations, dead ends, and utter failures. The cost is worthwhile because they a.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 42e8215 | research shows that givers get extra credit when they offer ideas that challenge the status quo. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| fffe989 | When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. --attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, physicist, biologist, and artist | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 03ad2e9 | It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ("A Father's Story")" | despair imagination moment | Andre Dubus | |
| bfa5cf9 | it seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but exceptional, a man not only capable of being a real poet, but a husband and father too. | Andre Dubus III | ||
| 1f36cbb | Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment. | Sara Zarr Tara Altebrando | ||
| 606f941 | Or she could return to the beginning, to the first moment she`d started to feel like playing wasn`t for her anymore. But she coudn`t rehash every hurt, every disappointment, every moment that felt like betrayal. And expect to arrive anywhere good. | Sara Zarr | ||
| eb2b62c | I remember sitting here," he said, "and watching you over there." He pointed, but I didn't have to look. Before Cameron and I got close, I spent a lot of lunches the same way, starting off eating and reading on my special bench on the other side of the yard, followed by walking the perimeter of the playground, balancing on the small cement curb that separated the blacktop from the landscaping, around and around and around, hoping I looked b.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 7327d15 | Mom always says that doubt is just another way of expressing faith. | Sara Zarr | ||
| b3024a5 | Because we were having a family crisis." " family had a crisis?" "Yes, Ethan. My family. Had a crisis. A crisis was had by my family." | Sara Zarr | ||
| 8754279 | There are things I want to remember about Cameron Quick that I can't entirely, like the pajamas he wore when he used to sleep over, and his favorite cereal, or how it felt to hold his hand as we walked home from school in third grade. I want to remember exactly how we became friends in the first place, a definite starting line that I can visit again and again. He's a story I want to know from page one. | Sara Zarr | ||
| fb70b80 | He said I didn't need to save him." "But you want to." "Yeah. But I can't. Right?" "Probably not. Usually not." | Sara Zarr | ||
| 8e34f22 | Love. That was the piece that had been missing, way before Prague. That was that piece that had been missing in her life until Will came and made her feel it, for their work together and for the beauty and also for him, though it was hard sometimes to separate those things. Maybe she didn`t love Will like she thought. Or couldn't in this moment. But what they'd done together, what had been open by becoming so close, she could still love th.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 8511d53 | What did it feel like, I wondered, to be kissed like that right out in public? Not like some passionate tongue-wrestling thing, just a kiss to declare: We are each other's. I'd never been kissed like that, not by him or anyone else. No one had declared me his, not for the whole world to see, anyway. | Sara Zarr | ||
| f3371bc | His voice just shot through me. It's amazing, the things your body will do just when you don't want them to: heart speeding up, fingers aching. I'd always liked his voice, low and laid-back, the kind of voice that made you listen, a voice that still caused me to teeter when I heard it saying my old nickname. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 3c07320 | It happened right then; he looked at me and it was the thing I'd been waiting for but didn't know it. I don't mean anything corny like I fell in love or even into a crush or anything like that. It was more a feeling like when I'd get picked first for volleyball or find one of those stupid school candygrams in my locker. It was knowing someone else thought about me for more than one second, maybe even about me when I wasn't there. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 17ca8a9 | There are so many pieces to grief. Sad pieces, angry pieces, guilty pieces, pieces of regret, and pieces that are a certain kind of pain that doesn't even have a word. | Sara Zarr | ||
| f33a9d6 | So what are you saying?" he asked. "That we'd be crazy if we don't try again. That you good for me, Will Doniger. You've proven it again and again." He hesitated before he turned to me, words hovering on his lips. "Tell me," I said. "What are you thinking?" "That I love you, Rose. I have for a while." I stopped breathing. "Me too. I love you, too." | Donna Freitas | ||
| f1f3cc3 | I wish I could bottle this,' I whispered. 'And drink it every morning.' 'And every day at lunch, and then again at dinner, and before bed.' 'You'd get sick of it,' he said. I shook my head. 'Never.' 'Seriously,' he said. 'I want to freeze this moment.' 'Good thing you don't need to.' 'No?' 'Will Doniger, there is nothing in the entire universe that could make me stop wanting to be with you. And so on and so forth ad infinitum. | Donna Freitas | ||
| cb12e81 | I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper...and I clearly related it to paleontology. argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better than others... I noted that you are never going to find evidence of a small local population that changed very rapidly in the fossil record... | charles-darwin darwin eldredge evidence evolution fossil-record gould harvard niles-eldredge science speciational-evolution stephen-jay-gould | Ernst Mayr | |
| 5d7c085 | Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply cannot dictate correct moral behavior or spiritual meaning. | ethics morality religion science | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| 3036f90 | Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations. | heritage women | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| 5eabab2 | I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops," reflected the late writer Stephen Jay Gould." | Jessica Bruder | ||
| 53d8229 | Scientific questions cannot be decided by majority vote in any case. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 4329318 | science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information. | Stephen Jay Gould |