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| 6e51ce4 | pinching my swollen fingers in between. Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naivete, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do. | Steve Martin | ||
| 46c4396 | Regardless of whether you're trying to convince someone to support your favorite charity, eat healthier, switch their business from their current supplier to your firm, or just adopt a new way of working at the office, one of the most common explanations for lack of persuasive success is also one of the simplest: People recognize they should change their behavior, but they just don't feel like doing it right now. | Steve J. Martin | ||
| 50d043a | 4. Reward appropriate behavior openly and generously If you want to persuade people to do the right thing, add some sort of public display which acknowledges the right kind of behavior. Even adding a simple smiley face to their bill whentheir account is in order, for example, will encourage people to keep doing the right thing. This kind of positive feedback can be proven scientifically to be more effective than complaining about bad behavi.. | BusinessNews Publishing | ||
| fcb5434 | Dogs in My Nose -- When I woke up that morning, it didn't take me long to realize there were dogs in my nose. I could hear their muffled barks; I could feel their playful vibrations. | Steve Martin | ||
| b6e6386 | Bohemians. These Bohemians, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Williams, and their seven children, Biff, Tina, Sparky, Louise, Tuffy, Mickey, and Biff Number Two, lived in a notorious artist's colony and planned community. Naturally, the bohemian's existence thrived on creativity. Early in the morning, Mrs. Williams would rise and create breakfast. Then, Mr. Williams, inspired by his wife's limitless energy, would rush off to a special room and create.. | Steve Martin | ||
| 0e91139 | You're nuts, but you're welcome here. | Steve Martin | ||
| e0de896 | MY FATHER , GLENN VERNON MARTIN , died in 1997 at age eighty-three, and afterward his friends told me how much they had loved him. They told me how enjoyable he was, how outgoing he was, how funny and caring he was. I was surprised by these descriptions, because the number of funny or caring words that had passed between my father and me was few. He had evidently saved his vibrant personality for use outside the family. When I was seven or .. | Steve Martin | ||
| 8bfcd47 | Be courteous, kind, and forgiving. Be gentle and peaceful each day. Be warm and human and grateful. Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike, Be witty and happy and wise. Be honest and love all your neighbors. Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant. Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus. Be dull and boring and omnipresent. Criticize things that you don't know about. Be oblong and have your knees removed. Be sure to stop at stop signs,.. | Steve Martin- Born Standing Up | ||
| 43ad6bf | Femme Fatale: Haven't I seen you somewhere before? | Steve Martin - "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" | ||
| 6dbf834 | Be patient and tough ; someday this pain will be useful to you . | usful | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 8a775f4 | My eyes move from side to side. I try to focus but I can't. I know why I'm here and I don't know why I'm here. I understand, and then I don't. I think it's fair, and then I don't. I wish I'd never done what I did, and then I'm glad I did. I want to scream, but I don't. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f9ead4a | Summer The seasons between spring and autumn, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere the warmest months of the year: June, July and August. The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life. | transformation | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 70687d6 | Forget the old man," she says sternly, so coldly, so devoid of all the love that I know her to have, that I don't recognize her, and for that I don't recognize the world. They are my roots, my foundations, and they sit before me now uprooted and saying things I never thought they'd say. "You will not allow a Flawed to ruin your life," she says, and her voice cracks." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 0b12f5b | you used to be much more... "muchier". You've lost your muchness." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 692e5d0 | So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do equally with your life, because its yours, its you, and its always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| cd80631 | This wash't how people spoke to each other. Where was the pretense that we liked each other, that we were both happy to be there, and we'd meet again? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 419cbe0 | Tengo treinta anos y todavia me siento como una nina pequena. Todavia miro alrededor para ver que hacen los demas y asi asegurarme de que no soy completamente distinta; todavia miro alrededor en busca de ayuda, de un codazo amistoso y un consejo dicho en voz baja. Pero al parecer no atraigo la atencion de nadie. Nadie mas parece estar mirando alrededor preguntandose que hacer. ?Por que sera que me siento como si fuese la unica persona que e.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f7863cd | Lo amaba, ?Sabes?, pero tengo una teoria sobre el amor. Creo que, por buenos que sean, hay amores que no estan destinados a durar para siempre | love-quotes | Cecelia Ahern | |
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KATIE: Cuando alguien dice que es una larga historia quiere decir que es una historia corta y tonta de la que no tiene ganas de hablar o que le da demasiada verguenza contar. ?Por que no hablas con el? ROSIE: Porque ya no me importa lo que haga o lo que deje de hacer. Es muy libre de hacer lo que quiera con su vida y yo no tengo nada que ver. Ademas, no quiere oir lo que tengo que decirle. KATIE: Nuestro vecino Rupert dice: <|
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| a5ae60b | Children always want the same things because they all need the same basic things. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 061851b | When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same. | life | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 40415e1 | Rushing, rushing, rushing. We are always rushing. Never have enough time here, always trying to make our way there. Need to have left here five minutes ago, need to be there now. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 4cd1185 | Our life is made up of time; our days is measured by those ours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a quick few minutes in our busy days to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. .. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| bdef45f | love was one of those feeling that you could never control | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b28666e | This story is about people, secrets, and time. About people who, not unlike wrapped parcels, cover themselves with layers and layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7393d99 | Do unto others as others have done to you. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 4119524 | I think life likes to do that every now and again. Every so often it likes to dip and when you feel like you can't take any more it smoothes out again. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e06c716 | Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying "Bold ground," then you pick yourself up and get on with it. When you find out you're pregnant and feel numb of all emotions you l.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 27cbcfd | Well, even a garden grows stranglers, love. It grows them naturally, all by itself. They creep up and choke the plants that are growing from the very same soil as they are. We each have our demons, our self-destruct button. Even in gardens. Pretty as they may be. If you don't potter, you don't notice them. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 9d3f4f3 | Luego la risa ceso y se hizo ese silencio. Ese silencio extrano y comodo a la vez. ?Que demonios fue eso? Fue como si el mundo dejara de dar vueltas en ese instante. Como si todos los que nos rodeaban hubiesen desaparecido. Como si hubiese olvidado todo lo que me aguardaba (...). Fue como si esos pocos minutos hubiesen sido creados solo para nosotros y lo unico que pudieramos hacer fuese mirarnos el uno al otro. Era como si (...) estuviera .. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 14cd77d | Bi li radije da si dobila vec prozivljen zivot, Tamara? Tako da se samo mozes opustiti i promatrati ga? Ili bi ga radije prozivjela sama? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 2e1228e | Our life is made up of time. Our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| be9a91b | We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ea0d19d | It's not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8b6f98f | Appreciating your loved ones," Raphie said, a little embarrassed at first. "Acknowledging all the special people in your life. Concentrating on what's important." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ea53576 | Life's kind of like a painting. A really bizzare, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is just a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 4e801fc | It can take a lifetime to build up a friendship- it can take a second to make an enemy. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8405b3b | In this place, fun and laughing makes them angry. We are not here to be leaders, we are here to serve. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 9a679c0 | I should have been afraid, walking through a mountainside in the dark by myself. Instead I felt safe, surrounded by the songs of birds, engulfed by the scents of sweet moss and pine, and cocooned in a mist that contained a little bit of magic. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3d637e7 | The transformation from chrysalis can take weeks, months or even years - mine took one year. And although I have become this person, I'm still in the midst of a larger transformation, one that I won't recognise until I look back at me now and say 'Who was that girl?' We are constantly evolving; I suppose I have always known that, but because I always knew that, I feared stopping, and it is ironic that it was only now that we never truly sto.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| db8750b | Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning. Time can't be given. But it can be shared. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 072ab11 | A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it's over. Be pleasant but don't smile too much; be sad but don't overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don't let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, fing.. | empathy funerals honesty life optimism reality society sympathy | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 7538da1 | Were we lost and unaccounted for, or was this where we truly belonged and our normal lives the original error? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 96935b9 | The stress of it all. How the hell are we expected at the age of sixteen (and seventeen, in your case) to decide what we want to do for the rest of our lives? Right now all I want to do is get of school, not start planning to get into another one. You're lucky you've always known what you want to do. | education future school stress | Cecelia Ahern |