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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 87b7127 | Innovation requires articulation. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e15bada | Occasionally Leonardo appended a moral lesson to the entry, such as this: "The oyster, when the moon is full, opens itself wide, and when the crab looks in he throws in a stone or seaweed and the oyster cannot close again, whereby it serves for food to that crab. This is what happens to him who opens his mouth to tell his secret. He becomes the prey of the treacherous hearer." -- | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b175c05 | There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other on. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cc49303 | Whoever accustoms himself to pass over in silence the faults of his neighbors shall meet with much better quarter from the world when he happens to fall into a mistake himself."14" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3524b2f | You always have to keep pushing to innovate. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6ef196c | On occasion Jobs would use the semi-abandoned Woodside home, especially its swimming pool, for family parties. When Bill Clinton was president, he and Hillary Clinton stayed in the 1950s ranch house on the property on their visits to their daughter, who was at Stanford. Since both the main house and ranch house were unfurnished, Powell would call furniture and art dealers when the Clintons were coming and pay them to furnish the houses temp.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3c7bd25 | progress, the concept that individuals, and humanity in general, move forward and improve based on a steady increase of knowledge and the wisdom that comes from conquering adversity. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b88bd9e | What do you think of Adolf Hitler?" Einstein replied, "He is living on the empty stomach of Germany. As soon as economic conditions improve, he will no longer be important." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8aab872 | Jobs described Mike Markkula's maxim that a good company must "impute"- it must convey its values and importance in everything it does, from packaging to marketing. Johnson loved it. It definitely applied to a company's stores. " The store will become the most powerful physical expression of the brand," he predicted. He said that when he was young he had gone to the wood-paneled, art-filled mansion-like store that Ralph Lauren had created a.. | business-culture marketing | Walter Isaacson | |
| e471935 | Despite the pecuniary spirit of Poor Richard's sayings and the penny-saving reputation they later earned Franklin, he did not have the soul of an acquisitive capitalist. "I would rather have it said," he wrote his mother, " 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.' " | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c405a2c | Leonardo had also been wrestling with the question of why the sky appears blue, and around that time he had correctly concluded that it had to do with the water vapor in the air. In the Saint Anne painting, he portrays the sky's luminous and misty gradations of blue as no other painter had done. The recent cleaning of the painting fully reveals the magical realism, veiled in vapors, of his distant mountains and skyline. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 890140d | As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5705982 | The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is r.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1d3a3d9 | Kenneth Clark referred to Leonardo's "inhumanly sharp eye." It's a nice phrase, but misleading. Leonardo was human. The acuteness of his observational skill was not some superpower he possessed. Instead, it was a product of his own effort. That's important, because it means that we can, if we wish, not just marvel at him but try to learn from him by pushing ourselves to look at things more curiously and intensely. In his notebook, he descri.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5d81067 | The Ottoman Turks were about to capture Constantinople, unleashing on Italy a migration of fleeing scholars with bundles of manuscripts containing the ancient wisdom of Euclid, Ptolemy, Plato, and Aristotle. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fc91afc | In notes for his treatise on painting, Leonardo recommended to young artists this practice of walking around town, finding people to use as models, and recording the most interesting ones in a portable notebook: "Take a note of them with slight strokes in a little book which you should always carry with you," he wrote. "The positions of the people are so infinite that the memory is incapable of retaining them, which is why you should keep t.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8f1f02d | Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d5e066e | Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4a78109 | Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into tyranny," he warned the Russian scientists. "The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information as well as over the existence of every single citizen."27" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 02acf23 | History is a tale, Franklin came to believe, not of immutable forces but of human endeavors. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e930288 | Look longer at the picture. It vibrates with Leonardo's understanding that no moment is discrete, self-contained, frozen, delineated, just as no boundary in nature is sharply delineated. As with the river that Leonardo described, each moment is part of what just passed and what is about to come. This is one of the essences of Leonardo's art: from the Adoration of the Magi to Lady with an Ermine to The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, each mom.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 48795c4 | Be curious, relentlessly curious. "I have no special talents," Einstein once wrote to a friend. "I am just passionately curious."4 Leonardo actually did have special talents, as did Einstein, but his distinguishing and most inspiring trait was his intense curiosity. He wanted to know what causes people to yawn, how they walk on ice in Flanders, methods for squaring a circle, what makes the aortic valve close, how light is processed in the e.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8cbb7f1 | Despite his new fame and fortune, he still fancied himself a child of the counterculture. On a visit to a Stanford class, he took off his Wilkes Bashford blazer and his shoes, perched on top of a table, and crossed his legs into a lotus position. The students asked questions, such as when Apple's stock price would rise, which Jobs brushed off. Instead he spoke of his passion for future products, such as someday making a computer as small as.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bd8cccd | Use for yourself little," he said, "but give to others much."26" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 37ea140 | There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in cases involving the simplest, safest phenomena." | humor satire short-story transgressive-fiction | Donald Barthelme | |
| c6f8e16 | He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it, he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice. DONALD BARTHELME, THE DEAD FATHER | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 2350ced | the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 94c7dc4 | art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 46fdb04 | We regarded each other sitting around the breakfast table with its big cardboard boxes of "Fear," "Chix," and "Rats." | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 7333609 | I met you under the balloon, on the occasion of your return from Norway; you asked if it was mine; I said it was. The balloon, I said, is a spontaneous autobiographical disclosure, having to do with the unease I felt at your absence, and with sexual deprivation, but now that your visit to Bergen has been terminated, it is no longer necessary or appropriate. Removal of the balloon was easy; trailer trucks carried away the depleted fabric, wh.. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| afec48b | The father is taken aback. What he usually says, in such a confrontation, is 'I changed your diapers for you, little snot.' This is not the right thing to say. First, it is not true (mothers change nine diapers out of ten), and second, it instantly reminds Sam II of what he is mad about. He is mad about being small when you were big, but not, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he i.. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| a2a85ba | What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| c4a6fc4 | The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn't even know it, or it wouldn't matter. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| 1188919 | My dance on the pedestal was my friendship with Maureen. I wasn't sure how I had lost my balance and fallen off. Or whether I was pushed. Everyone around me was trying to get me to dance again. The thing was, I hadn't quite given up on getting back up there. I still believed it was the only place where I could be happy. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| e6a112a | Debbie wondered if it was true that there was only one person in the world for every person, and if she had already met him, and she either had to find a way to be around him again someday or always be alone. Romance-wise. She didn't quite believe this. What seemed more likely was that there were at least five or six people scattered around the globe who you could bump into and, wham, it would be the right thing. | romance | Lynne Rae Perkins | |
| b42a2db | I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll just always be alone. But I think if I knew someone was going to fall in love with me when I'm fifty-three or something, I think I could wait. Maybe. If I knew it would at least happen. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| c200916 | On the eve of the shadow crescent... Watch the Vampire burn. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 1f3b662 | There are families whose greatness lies in their past, and in their legacies, Mrs. Schuyler answered. That is a quality much to be admired, for tradition is what binds us as a society. But there are some families, like some nations, whose greatness is a future development, and that quality, though harder to discern than the prestige of manor houses and coats of arms and titles of rank and office, is no less valuable, if, indeed, not more so.. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| d97d9b8 | Sometimes the only way to win is to cheat,' Aelwyn said stubbornly. The sisters turned to see what the Sister Superior would do, but Sister Mallory only sighed. 'You are young still, Sister Myrddyn, but one day you will learn that a false victory is a hollow one. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6558098 | Yet even though they were together, she could not stop worrying about how much time they would have- | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 45ea869 | Choice," Charles cursed. "A romantic notion, but nothing more." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| fa75418 | I love you, you know," Mimi said. "You make me crazy, but God help me Jack, I do." "I love you too," he replied." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| d45c07e | She had to be honest. And this was where the truth hurt. She wanted to see Jack Force again. But it was agony | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| d2e134c | It's not you she hates, Schuyler. It's me. She just turned her anger outward because she couldn't bring herself to hate whom she loves. | Melissa de la Cruz |