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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 65890a5 | Life rewards the dogged, not the qualified. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 93bcaf1 | Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the moments passed all too fast. Life whizzed by; she no longer had time to recollect it. Her notebooks to this day retain the story of her desperate attempt to hold together her self, her mind, her reason, her order, her morals. | memory | Toni Bentley | |
| eb5b8c8 | He'd passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and then disavowing twenty years of memories. He would banish that bitch from his heart if it meant cutting her out with his own dagger. And when at last he allowed himself to grieve, he did so silently and unwillingly, his tears hidden by the darkness, his rage congealing into a core of ice. | marriage treason | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 4cea466 | There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy on the biosphere and the imperatives of a capitalist market: maximum continuing growth in the search for profit. | ecology | Eric Hobsbawm | |
| 764fc4e | It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. The vast majority of printed works enter a state of suspended animation within a few weeks or years of publication, from which they are occasionally awakened, for equally short periods, by research students. | Eric Hobsbawm | ||
| 8ea427f | And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question. | Eric Hobsbawm | ||
| fbb848a | Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity | hell historical-fiction | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| a685b77 | Twilight was laying claim to the cite, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with stars and fleecy clouds the colour of plums. | sky stars | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 3d21e89 | This was the moment he most loved about tourneying, that first glorious sortie with banners streaming, trumpets blaring, and the earth atremble with pounding hooves as hundreds of knights came together in a spectacular clash of sound and fury. | tourney | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 802a30c | Removing his helmet, Edward knelt by the stream called Swillgate, a name that effectively quenched any desire to drink from its depths. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 11d9de2 | When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 257e85b | The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 19ade80 | It was a basic tenet of faith with men of Ranulf's class that a knight, trained in the ways of war since boyhood, could easily vanquish lesser foes, as much a belief in the superiority of blood and breeding as in the benefits of battle lore and killing competence. Ranulf had accepted this comforting conviction, too, but no one seemed to have told his assailants that they were inferior adversaries. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 2099b9c | You might as well face it. You're not going to be able to fight for the crown. You'll just have to grit your teeth and let us hand it over to you at the bargaining table. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 7eeb3ae | Geoffrey looked startled to see both his great-uncles bearing down upon him with such haste; he hadn't realized men their age could move so fast. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| fb1941a | All he wanted was enough time to consider all his options without being dragged into his household's petty squabbles or being nagged by his wife about that damnable pilgrimage. Was that so much to ask? Apparently so, for he'd yet to find a peaceful moment at Caen, not with Marguerite sulking and Aimar lurking and Will acting put-upon and Geoff wanting to lay plans and Richard strutting around as if he were the incarnation of Roland and poor.. | humour | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 078c699 | I once came upon a definition of history as 'the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods'. That is particularly true in the case of Richard III, where the normal medieval proclivity for moralizing and partisanship was further complicated by deliberate distortion to serve Tudor political needs. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 85afdd7 | Eleanor would have been indifferent to the immorality of her adultery, but would never have forgiven the stupidity of it. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| b2ff372 | Again, the most effective (and least destructive) way to help a child succeed--whether she's writing or skiing, playing a trumpet or a computer game--is to do everything possible to help her fall in love with what she's doing, to pay less attention to how successful she was (or is likely to be) and show more interest in the task. That's just another way of saying that we need to encourage more, judge less, and love always. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 441c520 | When we set children against one another in contests--from spelling bees to awards assemblies to science "fairs" (that are really contests), from dodge ball to honor rolls to prizes for the best painting or the most books read--we teach them to confuse excellence with winning, as if the only way to do something well is to outdo others." | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 7a6e538 | Most children seem eager, even desperate, to please those in authority, reluctant to rock the boat even when the boat clearly needs rocking. In a way, an occasional roll-your-eyes story of excess in the other direction marks the exception that proves the rule. And the rule is a silent epidemic of obedience. For every kid who is slapped with the label "Oppositional Defiant Disorder," hundreds suffer from what one educator has mischievously c.. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 784ed7b | The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable," says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book The Way We Were? cites a series of similar attacks on American education, moving backward one decade at a time.3 Each generation invokes the good old days, during which, we discover, people had been doing exactly the same thing." | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 9e632ab | We're told that parents push their children too hard to excel (by ghostwriting their homework and hiring tutors, and demanding that they triumph over their peers), but also that parents try to protect kids from competition (by giving trophies to everyone), that expectations have declined, that too much attention is paid to making children happy. Similarly, young adults are described as self-satisfied twits--more pleased with themselves than.. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| e7ef2da | The dominant problem with parenting in our society isn't permissiveness, but the fear of permissiveness. We're so worried about spoiling kids that we often end up over controlling them. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| f3f97ad | But however fast the world was spinning, time was standing still for Celine and Oliver, held in a magic moment they would never forget. | Betty Neels | ||
| c07530a | 5,000 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ece1986 | Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 005f459 | By then Einstein had finally discovered what was fundamental about America: it can be swept by waves of what may seem, to outsiders, to be dangerous political passions but are, instead, passing sentiments that are absorbed by its democracy and righted by its constitutional gyroscope. McCarthyism had died down, and Eisenhower had proved a calming influence. "God's own country becomes stranger and stranger," Einstein wrote Hans Albert that Ch.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 92ed216 | Byron published the first two cantos of his epic poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a romanticized account of his wanderings through Portugal, Malta, and Greece, and, as he later remarked, "awoke one morning and found myself famous." Beautiful, seductive, troubled, brooding, and sexually adventurous, he was living the life of a Byronic hero while creating the archetype in his poetry. He became the toast of literary London and was feted at thr.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c7e6004 | Think Different | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 78ea606 | The best way to predict the future is to invent it" and "People who are serious about software should make their own hardware." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b6b83cb | Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face to face meetings. " There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat,"he said."Thats crazy, Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say ' Wow, and soon your cooking up .. | collaboration creativity networking | Walter Isaacson | |
| 145ac7f | Franklin and his petition were roundly denounced by the defenders of slavery, most notably Congressman James Jackson of Georgia, who declared on the House floor that the Bible had sanctioned slavery and, without it, there would be no one to do the hard and hot work on plantations. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2a8e88e | Bob Iger, Disney's chief operating officer, had to step in and do damage control. He was as sensible and solid as those around him were volatile. His background was in television; he had been president of the ABC network, which was acquired in 1996 by Disney. His reputation was as an corporate suit, and he excelled at deft management, but he also had a sharp eye for talent, a good-humored ability to understand people, and a quiet flair that.. | management-and-leadership networking-skills | Walter Isaacson | |
| 9f8259f | Franklin was worried that his fondness for conversation and eagerness to impress made him prone to "prattling, punning and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company." Knowledge, he realized, "was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue." So in the Junto, he began to work on his use of silence and gentle dialogue." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2f72b89 | So he grew up not only with a sense of having once been abandoned, but also with a sense that he was special. In his own mind, that was more important in the formation of his personality. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6cf0dfc | Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e8d232d | Most of the successful innovators and entrepreneurs in this book had one thing in common: they were product people. They cared about, and deeply understood, the engineering and design. They were not primarily marketers or salesmen or financial types; when such folks took over companies, it was often to the detriment of sustained innovation. "When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don't matter so much, and a lot of them just t.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8c1a056 | Steve Jobs] chafed at not being in control, and he sometimes hallucinated or became angry. Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. Though barely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4e3141e | Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as if someone off the street added some brush strokes to a Picasso painting or changed the lyrics to a Dylan song. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 712cfb9 | Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it, I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." | insult perspective technology theft | Walter Isaacson | |
| 0659cbb | Lembrar-me de que irei morrer dentro de pouco tempo e a ferramenta mais importante que ja encontrei para me ajudar a fazer as grandes escolhas da vida. Porque quase tudo -- todas as expectativas externas, todo o orgulho, todos os medos e embaracos ou fracassos -- todas essas coisas deixam de ser importantes face a morte, deixando apenas lugar para as coisas que verdadeiramente importam. Lembrar-nos de que vamos morrer e a melhor forma que c.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 21a61c0 | Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth." | sales | Walter Isaacson | |
| 2f58398 | Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so that they would stay strong, and that became a metaphor for his pruning at Apple. Instead of encouraging each group to let product lines proliferate based on marketing considerations, or permitting a thousand ideas to bloom, Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. " There is no one better a.. | concentration confidence focus | Walter Isaacson |