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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e586566 | There is an old saying, "It is amazing what you can achieve if you are not wedded to who gets the credit." The" -- | David H. Maister | ||
| 9b2c674 | It is ironic that a business in which the serving of clients depends so heavily on interpersonal psychology should be peopled with those who believe in the exclusive power of technical mastery. And | David H. Maister | ||
| 13d3218 | The spring is wound up tight. It will uncoil of itself. That is what is so convenient in tragedy. The least little turn of the wrist will do the job . . . The rest is automatic. You don't need to lift a finger. The machine is in perfect order; it has been oiled ever since time began, and it runs without friction . . . Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless . . . In a tragedy, nothing is in doubt and everyone's destiny is known. Tha.. | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 0e186e6 | Pas envie de vivre... Qui se levait la premiere, le matin, rien que pour sentir l'air froid sur sa peau nue? Qui se couchait la derniere seulement quand elle n'en pouvait plus de fatigue, pour vivre encore un peu de la nuit? Qui pleurait deja toute petite, en pensant qu'il y avait tant de petites betes, tant de brins d'herbe dans le pre et qu'on ne pouvait pas tous les prendre? | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 7bbc54d | Oui, j'aime Hemon. J'aime un Hemon dur et jeune; un Hemon exigeant et fidele, comme moi. Mais si votre vie, votre bonheur doivent passer sur lui avec leur usure, si Hemon ne doit plus palir quand je palis, s'il ne doit plus me croire morte quand je suis en retard de cinq minutes, s'il ne doit plus se sentir seul au monde et me detester quand je ris sans qu'il sache pourquoi, s'il doit devenir pres de moi le monsieur Hemon, s'il doit appen.. | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 4427073 | S IS THE SOUND of the sea. Her surge and suck, her spray and surf. Sometimes she seethes. She knows the sound of smooth. With her s, the sea marries the shore, and then there is scamper and slush in the sand. With curling s's the sea rises to stroke the side of her superior, the sky, who loves and meets her in the s of spray, spawned in liquid and air. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 3656bf0 | Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost. | vice virtue | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| f326887 | Deberia tener la capacidad de ser feliz conmigo misma, de estar satisfecha con lo que soy. No como reina, sino con lo que soy. | self-acceptance self-esteem | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| d29ced9 | It is far better to have 10,000 Facebook friends who are in the same category or aligned with your values or a common inter- est than 100,000 random robot followers from around the world. | business-advice executive facebook management social-media success twitter | Brian E Boyd | |
| a46cd33 | There's an analogy to be made between our craving for story and our craving for food. A tendency to overeat served our ancestors well when food shortages were a predictable part of life. But now that we modern desk jockeys are awash in cheap grease and corn syrup, overeating is more likely to fatten us up and kill us young. Likewise, it could be that an intense greed for story was healthy for our ancestors but has some harmful consequences .. | Jonathan Gottschall | ||
| 36148aa | As long as you're breathing, your story's still going. | ending life living story | Darren Shan | |
| cae98ac | You should also try to figure out which people are thing people and which ones are people people. | Scott Adams | ||
| 23f5841 | Focus on your diet first and get that right so you have enough energy to want to exercise. | Scott Adams | ||
| ab3d29b | If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem to have bad reasoning skills. | Scott Adams | ||
| 9df030c | Es gibt zwei Arten von Menschen: intelligente und attraktive Leute wie Sie [...] und die sechs Milliarden Idioten, die uns im Weg herumstehen. | Scott Adams | ||
| 2931006 | Scott: What's the cure? Doctor: There is none. Scott: But that isn't what I heard. The optimist in me translated the gloomy news as "Scott, you will be the first person in the world to be cured of spasmodic dysphonia." And I decided that after I cured myself, somehow, someway, I would spread the word to others. I wouldn't be satisfied escaping from my prison of silence. I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and.. | inspirational | Scott Adams | |
| f4d8506 | Another huge advantage of learning as much as you can in different fields is that the more concepts you understand, the easier it is to learn new ones. Imagine explaining to an extraterrestrial visitor the concept of a horse. It would take some time. If the next thing you tried to explain were the concept of a zebra, the conversation would be shorter. You would simply point out that a zebra is a lot like a horse but with black and white str.. | Scott Adams | ||
| c125f3c | Goals are for losers. Your mind isn't magic. It's a moist computer you can program. The most important metric to track is your personal energy. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Happiness is health plus freedom. Luck can be managed, sort of. Conquer shyness by being a huge phony (in a good way). Fitness is the lever that moves the world. Simplicity transforms ordinary into amazing. | Scott Adams | ||
| a7b057f | Men believe value is created by accomplishment, and they have objectives for the women in their lives. If a woman meets the objectives, he assumes she loves him. If she fails to meet the objectives, he will assume she does not love him. The man assumes that if the woman loved him she would have tried harder and he always believes his objectives for her are reasonable. | Scott Adams | ||
| 64aa6f7 | Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. --SCOTT ADAMS | Sarah Lewis | ||
| 407cb86 | People think they follow advice but they don't. Humans are only capable of receiving information. They create their own advice. If you seek to influence someone, don't waste time giving advice. You can change only what people know, not what they do. | Scott Adams | ||
| 7e86454 | In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail. | Scott Adams | ||
| bd0758d | For humans, honesty is a matter of degree. Engineers are always honest in matters of technology and human relationships. That's why it's a good idea to keep engineers away from customers, romantic interests, and other people who can't handle the truth. | Scott Adams | ||
| ca5de10 | I was no longer surprised to find unlocked doors in the city. Maybe at some subconscious level we don't believe we need protection from our own species. | Scott Adams | ||
| f437c33 | The elderly are spooky when they degenerate into reflections of their younger selves. They say things that make sense on some grammatical level, but it's not always connected to reality. | Scott Adams | ||
| e895f99 | Love? Do you mean love in the way you understand it as a human?" "Well, not exactly, but basically the same thing. I mean, love is love." "A brain surgeon would tell you that a specific part of the brain controls the ability to love. If it's damaged, people are incapable of love, incapable of caring about others." "So?" "So, isn't it arrogant to think that the love generated by our little brains is the same thing that an omnipotent being ex.. | Scott Adams | ||
| ef89c9d | On all the important stuff, we are emotional creatures who make decisions first and rationalize them after the fact. | Scott Adams | ||
| 29de138 | Practicality rules our perceptions. To survive, our tiny brains need to tame the blizzard of delusion generator information that threatens to overwhelm us. Our perceptions are wondrously flexible, transforming our worldview automatically and continuously until we find safe harbor in a comfortable delusion. | Scott Adams | ||
| 7f8ed20 | An insane person believes his world is consistent. If he believes the government is trying to kill him, he will see ample evidence of his belief in the so-called real world. He will be wrong, but his evidence is no better or worse than your evidence that it rained this morning. Both of you will be converting evidence of the present into impressions stored in your minds and you will both be certain your evidence is solid and irrefutable. You.. | Scott Adams | ||
| 169b9a8 | The rest of the universe is like the coin. The events of the past appear to cause the present, but every time we pop back into existence we are subject to a new set of probabilities. Literally anything can happen. | Scott Adams | ||
| 7c00ab3 | Successwise, you're better off being good at two complementary skills than being excellent at one. | Scott Adams | ||
| 38d5111 | Pessimism is often a failure of imagination. If you can imagine the future being brighter, it lifts your energy and gooses the chemistry in your body that produces a sensation of happiness. | Scott Adams | ||
| 0180006 | I've explained to a number of people my observations about how exercise, diet, and sleep influence mood. The usual reaction is a blank expression followed by a change of topic. No one wants to believe that the formula for happiness is as simple as daydreaming, controlling your schedule, napping, eating right, and being active every day. You'd feel like an idiot for suffering so many unhappy days while not knowing the cure was so accessible. | Scott Adams | ||
| a151adc | We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them later....Your illusion of being a rational person is supported by the fact that sometimes you do act rationally. | psychology-of-self | Scott Adams | |
| ff85a04 | Lately...the Peter Principle has given way to the "Dilbert Principle." The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management." | humour peter-principle | Scott Adams | |
| ac6975e | Managing your personal energy is like managing budgets in a company. | Scott Adams | ||
| 1a1d181 | If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself. | Scott Adams | ||
| 00cca8b | I would define an asshole as anyone who chooses to make the lives of others less pleasant for reasons that don't appear productive or necessary. | Scott Adams | ||
| d87dd87 | The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower. | Scott Adams | ||
| e6ded8f | The grand illusion of life is that our minds have the capacity to understand reality. But human minds didn't evolve to understand reality. We didn't need that capability. A clear view of reality wasn't necessary for our survival. Evolution cares only that you survive long enough to procreate. And that's a low bar. The result is that each of us is, in effect, living in our own little movie that our brain has cooked up for us to explain our e.. | Scott Adams | ||
| 6812282 | Every other question has an answer to why. Only probability is inexplicable. | Scott Adams | ||
| b378ce2 | You can't save everyone. It's not an option. | choose choosing life option save | Darren Shan | |
| 6039786 | You have had Ravenscar murdered, and hidden his body in my cellar!" uttered her ladyship, sinking into a chair. "We shall all be ruined! I knew it!" "My dear ma'am it is no such thing!" Deborah said amused. "He is not dead I assure you!" | romance | Georgette Heyer | |
| 275198d | I knew you'd make a champion wife, love!' 'On the contrary! My husband will live under the cat's foot.' 'I'm very partial to cats,' offered the Major hopefully. | Georgette Heyer |