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| cd30614 | I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of other's is by sympathy, which is suffering with, and that the way to deal with one's own pain is to put one foot after the other. Yet I was never willing to suffer with others, and when my own pain hit me, I crawled into hole. Sympathy I have failed in, stoicism I have barely passed. But I have made straight A's in irony- that curse, that evasion, that armor, that way of staying safe .. | humanity life pain suffering | Wallace Stegner | |
| 0f1423c | Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something. Talent, I tell him, believing what I say, is at least half luck. It isn't as if our baby lips were touched with a live coal, and thereafter we lisp in numbers or talk in tongues. We .. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 9c1d7f4 | I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from. | nostalgia | Wallace Stegner | |
| 92f6a64 | We must be reconciled, for what we left behind us can never be ours again. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| ff7850e | And so, by circuitous and unpredictable routes, we converge toward midcontinent and meet in Madison, and are at once drawn together, braided and plaited into a friendship. It is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it, but mutual liking. It is therefore rare. To Sally and me, focused on .. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| b95c903 | It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. I have found that it is even possible to take a certain pleasure out of submission to necessity. That have I borne, this can I bear also. | patience | Wallace Stegner | |
| 8f17b42 | The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should flit past the windows after dark, not fill the rooms. The moment anyone tries to make poems or stories of ideas alone he is at the edge of absurdity; he can only harangue, never interest and persuade, because ideas in their conceptual state are simply not dramatic. They have to be put into the form of peopl.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| d2d3af4 | Getting old is like standing in a long, slow line. You wake up out of the shuffle and torpor only at those moments when the line moves you one step closer to the window. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| c50ab9c | Harvard neuroscientists Jason Mitchell and Diana Tamir found that disclosing information about the self is intrinsically rewarding. In one study, Mitchell and Tamir hooked subjects up to brain scanners and asked them to share either their own opinions and attitudes ("I like snowboarding") or the opinions and attitudes of another person ("He likes puppies"). They found that sharing personal opinions activated the same brain circuits that res.. | Jonah Berger | ||
| 6affa99 | When you build an audience, you don't have to buy people's attention--they give it to you. This is a huge advantage. So build an audience. Speak, write, blog, tweet, make videos--whatever. Share information that's valuable and you'll slowly but surely build a loyal audience. | Jason Fried | ||
| 721b4db | If the only way you can inspire the troops is by a regimen of exhaustion, it's time to look for some deeper substance. Because what trickles down is less likely to be admiration but dread and fear instead. A leader who sets an example of self-sacrifice can't help but ask self-sacrifice of others. | Jason Fried | ||
| 6cc7d0f | All companies have customers. Lucky companies have fans. But the most fortunate companies have audiences. | Jason Fried | ||
| 823cf6e | Any conversation with more than three people is typically a conversation with too many people. | Jason Fried | ||
| d7540c6 | Mark Twain nailed it: "Comparison is the death of joy." | Jason Fried | ||
| 1759a86 | A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby. | Jason Fried | ||
| bc2dfd9 | Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity. | Jason Fried | ||
| c25666c | Ever find yourself working on something without knowing exactly why? Someone just told you to do it. It's pretty common, actually. That's why it's important to ask why you're working on _____. What is this for? Who benefits? What's the motivation behind it? Knowing the answers to these questions will help you better understand the work itself. | Jason Fried David Heinemeier Hansson Matthew Linderman 37 Signals | ||
| b720ea5 | If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this? If you merely replicate competitors, there's no point for your existence. Even if you wind up losing, it's better to go down fighting for what you believe in instead of just imitating others. | Jason Fried David Heinemeier Hansson Matthew Linderman 37 Signals | ||
| effd0db | Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway. The decisions you make today don't need to last forever. If circumstances change, your decisions CAN change. Decisions are temporary. | Jason Fried David Heinemeier Hansson | ||
| 41dc5b3 | Writing is today 's currency for good ideas. | Jason Fried David Heinemeier Hansson | ||
| 3678e9d | You don't make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That's a warehouse. | Jason Fried | ||
| 2bb4833 | The best designers and the best programmers aren't the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with Photoshop or their environment of choice, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn't matter. That's where the real gains are made. | Jason Fried | ||
| d210196 | Even short commutes stab at your happiness. According to the research,* commuting is associated with an increased risk of obesity, insomnia, stress, neck and back pain, high blood pressure, and other stress-related ills such as heart attacks and depression, and even divorce. But let's say we ignore the overwhelming evidence that commuting doesn't do a body good. Pretend it isn't bad for the environment either. Let | Jason Fried | ||
| bf3ec61 | His smile faded at the sight of his uncles lightsaber. "i'll take that" he said. "It belongs to me"... "Strange, then, that it called to me at the castle" Rey said, studying the ancient weapon almost idly before snapping her gaze back to Kylo. "And not to you". The corner of Kylo's mouth twitched in the beginning of a smile, and he inclined his head at the soldiers filling the hangar. "You're in no position to dictate" --" -- | Jason Fry | ||
| 86fd281 | It might seem perverse, but the CEO is usually the last to know. With great power comes great ignorance. | Jason Fried | ||
| dfa4cc5 | you'd be amazed how much quality collective thought can be captured using two simple tools: a voice connection and a shared screen. | Jason Fried | ||
| 00778c9 | When someone wants to demonstrate a new feature they're working on at 37signals, often the easiest way is to record a screencast and narrate the experience. A screencast is basically just a recording of your screen that others can play back later as a movie. It can be used in several ways, including for presenting the latest sales figures or elaborating on a new marketing strategy. | Jason Fried | ||
| a7009ad | What's worse is that long hours, excessive busyness, and lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for many people these days. Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity. | Jason Fried | ||
| 271040c | The moment Rey reached her hut she had felt him near her, in the Force. The connection between them was so raw and powerful that it reminded her of touching a live wire in the wreckage of a starship. She had closed her eyes, opened them, and found Kylo Ren there--right next to her where she sat on the stone bench. As if she could actually reach out and touch his hand, his face, his hair. At the sight of him she'd felt relief surge through h.. | star-wars the-last-jedi | Jason Fry | |
| 09cd643 | I had, of course, witnessed hundreds of people in a casino before, mindlessly dropping coins into slot machines. They don't play for money in America. It's true. The big payout is incidental to most gamblers. It's the numbness they're after. Not so in China. No one had that look of glazed stupor often found in American casinos. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| ef84a64 | i'm off to an island nation where formal wear consists of a leaf tired around a penis. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 8a1a4bb | Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head--by reading. | Jim Trelease | ||
| 6ace4e3 | When someone becomes a teacher, she's like the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof. All year long she's trying to entice students to go out on dates with authors--that is, to pick up this book or that book and spend twenty minutes with the author, someone they've never met. The better she knows her students and authors or books, the more successful will be the "matchmaking." But the teacher (or librarian) who doesn't read much will fail for s.. | Jim Trelease | ||
| cc95860 | The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it. | inspirational learning reading | Jim Trelease | |
| 3c79a04 | Allow children to choose the books they wish to read to themselves, even if they don't meet your high standards. | Jim Trelease | ||
| 91d2a88 | There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism--as frightening as that is--but the prospect that Americans will give up their rights in pursuing the chimera of security. | patriotic political privacy rights security terrorism | David K. Shipler | |
| f0d940a | Groaning, he gripped his fists in the wild stuff. "Contessa.God, Contessa." She straightened, changing the angle, changing the pleasure. She shook her hair back and undulated. She was a contessa.A princess.No,a queen." | italian love mafia queen | Christie Ridgway | |
| ee7fbe5 | Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind? | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 0799d28 | Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 0a3c454 | His eyes would suddenly go blank, leaving two gaping wounds, two wells of terror. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 04330fe | The gates of the camp opened. It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side. The | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 749e5a9 | Musime se vzbourit proti bohum a rikat: "Chcete mi odeprit stesti? Tak dobre, ukousnu si ho poradne sousto!" To je tvari v tvar utrpeni jedina platna odpoved." | Elie Wiesel | ||
| c48abfe | We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth. At | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 2c91a6d | We must not see person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, | Elie Wiesel |