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| dca754b | The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done. All these act within the Equilibrium. From the hurricane and the great whale's sounding to the fall of a dry leaf and the gnat's flight, all they do is done within the balance of the whole. But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the.. | mankind nature responsibility | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| d99b12d | nusuth | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 802f3d6 | The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8a7c5b2 | If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane trip. But what if there's five hours between your arrival and your connecting flight, or your plane is late arriving and you've missed your connection, or the connecting flight is late, or the staff of another airline are striking for a wage-benefit package and the government has not yet ordered out the Nat.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 466751f | Our daily life in the auntring was repetitive. On the ship, later, I learned that people who live in artificially complicated situations call such a life 'simple.' I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| cb1c02e | The idea that only belief sees the world as wonderful, and the "cold hard facts" of science take all the color and wonder out of it, the idea that scientific understanding automatically threatens and weakens religious or spiritual insight, is just hokum." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9ccc109 | Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?" From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?" | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 49abf16 | The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer. A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. | gender humanism leftism science-fiction | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 319bb2e | An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn't work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sanction but that of private conscience. | love moraily politics property relationships sci-fi women | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 81de2b7 | Back then, in 1967, wizards were all, more or less, Merlin and Gandalf. Old men, peaked hats, white beards. But this was to be a book for young people. Well, Merlin and Gandalf must have been young once, right? And when they were young, when they were fool kids, how did they learn to be wizards? And there was my book. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 09632c5 | A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons. War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to "a war against" whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical com.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4f38e0c | 'But I might ask you as profitably why you've never seen fit to invent airborne vehicles? One small stolen airplane would have spared you and me a great deal of difficulty!' 'How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly?' Estraven said sternly. It was a fair response, on a world where no living thing is winged. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6d70f34 | If memory remains sound and the thinking mind retains its vigor, an old intelligence may have extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 83ec159 | Fiction is really often much more useful than lived experience; it takes much less time, costs nothing (from the library), and it comes in a manageable, orderly form. You can understand it. Experience just steamrollers over you and you begin to see what happened only years and years later, if ever. Fiction is much better than reality at providing factual, psychological, and moral understanding. | reality | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 2f2ae2a | Never fear. It is much easier for men to act than to refrain from acting. We will continue to do good and to do evil. But if there were a king over us all again and he sought the counsel of a mage, as in the days of old, and I were that mage, I would say to him: My lord, do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in a.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d87a992 | But because she was not a girl now, she was not awed, but only wondered at how men ordered their world into this dance of masks, and how easily a woman might learn to dance it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| da28089 | Hold fast to the one noble thing. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4fd7c99 | When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.' How | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c8d1807 | He knew that insofar as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f1a5e0a | Bir hirsiz yaratmak icin bir sahip yaratin; suc yaratmak istiyorsaniz, yasalar koyun. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f728934 | There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 16288fd | Thus they both set a fatal trap for the believer: if you believe in God you can't believe in evolution, and vice versa. But this is rather like saying if you believe in Tuesday you can't believe in artichokes. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d81d932 | itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 05a0d06 | The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6bc0fff | It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d21e688 | How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9ba33db | Olumden korkuyordum. Olumden o kadar korkuyordum ki belki de oluyorsunuzdur diye, size bakamiyordum bile. Benim icin olmemenin, eger bulabilirsem, bir... bir yolu oldugundan baska hicbir sey dusunemiyordum. Fakat, sanki buyuk bir yara varmis da kaniyormus gibi, -sizinki gibi- hayat surekli akip gidiyordu. Fakat her seyde bu vardi. Ve ben hicbir sey, hicbir sey yapmadim; sadece olmenin korkusundan saklanmaya calistim. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 3345d12 | When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d2ce415 | Would you walk away from Omelas? | courage decision-makingsion strength-and-courage strength-of-character the-ones-we-leave-behind | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1002b4c | In a State, even a democracy, where power is hierarchic, how can you prevent the storage of information from becoming yet another source of power to the powerful--another piston in the great machine? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e7fa1a2 | He seemed not to know the uses of silence. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a18db9b | Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2eee3a4 | ACCIDENTAL GROWTH INTENTIONAL GROWTH Plans to Start Tomorrow Insists on Starting Today Waits for Growth to Come Takes Complete Responsibility to Grow Learns Only from Mistakes Often Learns Before Mistakes Depends on Good Luck Relies on Hard Work Quits Early and Often Perseveres Long and Hard Falls into Bad Habits Fights for Good Habits Talks Big Follows Through Plays It Safe Takes Risks Thinks Like a Victim Thinks Like a Learner Relies on T.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| f804899 | As a leader, you don't earn any points for failing in a noble cause. You don't get credit for being "right" as you bring the organization to a halt. Your success is measured by your ability to actually take the people where they need to go. But you can do that only if the people first buy into you as a leader." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2e2d6e4 | A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem. It's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4a06926 | I have to live with myself, and so I want to be fit for myself to know, I want to be able, as days go by, Always to look myself straight in the eye; I don't want to stand, with the setting sun, And hate myself for things I have done. I don't want to keep on a closet shelf A lot of secrets about myself, And fool myself, as I come and go, Into thinking that nobody else will know The kind of man I really am; I don't want to dress up myself in .. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| cfe8850 | Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind. Zig Ziglar | DOTCHAMOU ZAKARI | ||
| 43d93e4 | Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| f90f019 | The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That's good because if you're young you're still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you've wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 12ebfb7 | Some people want to put restrictions on themselves according to their talent, intelligence, or experience. Others worry about their age. But with God, one person can always make a difference, regardless of circumstances or situation. And age means nothing to Him. When Jesus fed the five thousand, a boy provided the loaves and fishes (John 6:1-13). And in the case of Noah, when it began to rain and he entered the ark, he was six hundred year.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| b94643e | When you like people and treat them like individuals who have value, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 6145f24 | If you don't like the crop you are reaping, check the seed you are sowing. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 8e2ab79 | Good leaders know when to display emotions and when to delay them. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2bbc474 | Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances. | John C. Maxwell |