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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0f12fe2 | He huffed in amusement. She had the unique ability to attract danger even when in benign situations. Perhaps he should amend his plan and just watch her. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4c98597 | Am I ready for the next storm?' 'You are the next storm. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 7c95504 | I didn't want to share you, love. We have a lot of catching up to do. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| e083daa | I never pretended with you. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4e83f0d | Two men. I had just killed two men. A killing machine, I hadn't even hesitated. Fear and rage settled deep in my chest, forming a layer of ice around my heart. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 7754a00 | Our herd may roam, but we all know where is home. | herd home roam | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 3e2ca65 | One snake wasn't enough. Time for Perl's suggestion. I handed everyone two capsules and a pin. "Get as close to the guards as you can. Poke a small hole in the capsule and squirt the liquid near them. Don't get it on you," I instructed. "Why not?" Leif asked. "You'll have a necklace snake trying to mate with you." "Gee, Yelena. I'm so glad you're home," Leif grumbled. "It's good to know Mother is doing something useful with her time." "I th.. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 7cbee57 | Vivir es un riesgo- le dije yo-. Todas las decisiones, nuestras relaciones con los demas, cada paso que damos, siempre que te levantas de la cama por las mananas, te arriesgas. Sobrevivir consiste en saber que corres esos riesgos y no en salir de la cama con una falsa sensacion de seguridad | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| a02cc86 | there will always be sharks in the water. Nothing you can do about it except be careful where you swim." "Your" | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 0a8bd04 | And it's always better to check than be sorry," Quain added. "'It worked' could be code for the dead are invading." "Wow, that's... really random, Quain. Aside from you , who would ever put those two things together?" | loren quain the-monkeys | Maria V. Snyder | |
| df58d4f | Living in this world without Valek held no appeal for me. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| fa9ce2e | Valek. The one person I wouldn't mind spending eternity with. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 33d8dac | Dotcom believes one of the reasons he was targeted was his support for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He says he was compelled to reach out to the site after US soldier Bradley Manning leaked documents to it. The infamous video recording of the Apache gunship gunning down a group of Iraqis (some of whom, despite widespread belief to the contrary, were later revealed to have been armed), including two Reuters journalists, was the trigger... | julian-assange kim-dotcom megaupload neil-macbride transparency-or-the-lack-thereof us-government wikileaks | David Fisher | |
| a296fef | Nobody is going to care who won or lost any election when the earth is uninhabitable." - Al Gore" -- | Susan Cain | ||
| bbf3d99 | All right," he said. "Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to constructive feedback loops." He turned to the blackboard, scooped up a piece of chalk, and began writing rapidly. "See," he said, "using Dirac notation, if we let Webmind's default conscious state be represented by a bra of phi and a ket of psi, then this would be the einselec.. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| afdadbb | Free will is not always the most important thing | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
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| 71d1d97 | If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. | Susan Cain | ||
| dd4ba2b | Some animals carry their shelter wherever they go. Some humans are just the same. | introversion | Susan Cain | |
| 0eba5cd | Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achievement. When you practice deliberately, you identify the tasks or knowledge that are just out of your reach, strive to upgrade your performance, monitor your progress, and revise accordingly. Practice sessions that fall short of this standard are not only less useful-- they're counterproductive. They reinforce existing cognitive mechanisms instead of improving them. | Susan Cain | ||
| 1fc4c8a | It makes sense that so many introverts hide even from themselves. We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal--the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight. The archetypal extrovert prefers action to contemplation, risk-taking to heed-taking, certainty to doubt. He favors quick decisions, even at the risk of being wrong. She works well in teams and socializes in groups. We.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 283bbc3 | As Jung felicitously put it, "There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum." | Susan Cain | ||
| c589804 | Anyone can be a great negotiator, I told them, and in fact it often pays to be quiet and gracious, to listen more than talk, and to have an instinct for harmony rather than conflict. With this style, you can take aggressive positions without inflaming your counterpart's ego. And by listening, you can learn what's truly motivating the person you're negotiating with and come up with creative solutions that satisfy both parties. | Susan Cain | ||
| 259a6d3 | In fact, the very thing that many high-reactives hate most about blushing-- its uncontrollability-- is what makes it so socially useful. "Because it is impossible to control the blush intentionally," Dijk speculates, blushing is an authentic sign of embarrassment. And embarrassment, according to Keltner, is a moral emotion. It shows humility, modesty, and a desire to avoid aggression and make peace." | Susan Cain | ||
| 48dbc01 | And it suggests, says Jadzia Jagiellowicz, the lead scientist at Stony Brook, that sensitive types think in an unusually complex fashion. It may also help explain why they're so bored by small talk. "If you're thinking in more complicated ways," she told me, "then talking about the weather or where you went for the holidays is not quite as interesting as talking about values or morality." | Susan Cain | ||
| 0738713 | A mountain of recent data on open-plan offices from many different industries corroborates the results of the games. Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They're associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure. Open-plan workers are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and elevated stress levels and to get the flu; they argue more with their coll.. | Susan Cain | ||
| e2c3981 | The "catharsis hypothesis"--that aggression builds up inside us until it's healthily released--dates back to the Greeks, was revived by Freud, and gained steam during the "let it all hang out" 1960s of punching bags and primal screams. But the catharsis hypothesis is a myth--a plausible one, an elegant one, but a myth nonetheless. Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it." | Susan Cain | ||
| 62c18b9 | According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits--introversion, for example--but we can and do act out of character in the service of "core personal projects." | Susan Cain | ||
| 33ef0d8 | To ask whether it's nature or nurture, says Kagan, is like asking whether a blizzard is caused by temperature or humidity. It's the intricate interaction between the two that makes us who we are. | Susan Cain | ||
| 06e2379 | I realize it's not true that I'm no longer shy; I've just learned to talk myself down from the ledge | Susan Cain | ||
| 54e06ad | Susan was already rehearsing excuses in case she was caught: Men didn't question menstruation stories. Ever. You could probably get into the White House if you said you needed a tampon ASAP. | Chelsea Cain | ||
| 2ef4328 | In most settings, people use small talk as a way of relaxing into a new relationship, and only once they're comfortable do they connect more seriously. Sensitive people seem to do the reverse. They "enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep," says Strickland. "When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else." | Susan Cain | ||
| 533d029 | Our schools should teach children the skills to work with others- cooperative learning can be effective when practiced well and in moderation- but also the time and training they need to deliberately practice on their own. | Susan Cain | ||
| f75f934 | Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me--they're shy and they live in their heads. They're almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone where they can control an invention's design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don't believe anything really revolutionary has been invented by committee. If you're that rare engineer who's an invento.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 79a0087 | One noteworthy study suggests that people who suppress negative emotions tend to leak those emotions later in unexpected ways. The psychologist Judith Grob asked people to hide their emotions as she showed them disgusting images. She even had them hold pens in their mouths to prevent them from frowning. She found that this group reported feeling less disgusted by the pictures than did those who'd been allowed to react naturally. Later, howe.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 62f3c64 | Probably the most common--and damaging--misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social. But as we've seen, neither formulation is correct; introverts and extroverts are differently social. | susan cain | ||
| bf0ad8c | Over-arousal doesn't produce anxiety so much as the sense that you can't think straight--that you've had enough and would like to go home now. Under-arousal is something like cabin fever. Not enough is happening: you feel itchy, restless, and sluggish, like you need to get out of the house already. | Susan Cain | ||
| 75e58ba | One highly successful venture capitalist who is regularly pitched by young entrepreneurs told me how frustrated he is by his colleagues' failure to distinguish between good presentation skills and true leadership ability. "I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas," he said. "It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent." | Susan Cain | ||
| 43ff474 | Psychologists often discuss the difference between "temperament" and "personality." Temperament refers to inborn, biologically based behavioral and emotional patterns that are observable in infancy and early childhood; personality is the complex brew that emerges after cultural influence and personal experience are thrown into the mix. Some say that temperament is the foundation, and personality is the building." | Susan Cain | ||
| 3a3ef03 | Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much," a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral." | Susan Cain | ||
| 7e80a44 | Some of the world's most talented people are introverts. Without them we wouldn't have the Apple computer, the theory of relativity or Van Gogh's sunflowers. | Susan Cain | ||
| 78ac4f5 | Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of silence, living alone automatically makes me refrain from the sins of speech. Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. Proverbs from the West Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong. | Susan Cain | ||
| bafc6b6 | Moreover, they tell us that the Extrovert Ideal is not as sacrosanct as we may have thought. So if, deep down, you've been thinking that it's only natural for the bold and sociable to dominate the reserved and sensitive, and that the Extrovert Ideal is innate to humanity, Robert McCrae's personality map suggests a different truth: that each way of being--quiet and talkative, careful and audacious, inhibited and unrestrained--is characterist.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 31a2ca1 | Studies show that the fear of public humiliation is a potent force. During the 1988-89 basketball season, for example, two NCAA basketball teams played eleven games without any spectators, owing to a measles outbreak that led their schools to quarantine all students. Both teams played much better (higher free-throw percentages, for example) without any fans, even adoring home-team fans, to unnerve them. | Susan Cain |