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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b33d09a | We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 533475b | No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| d2c5631 | kn `l~W 'n 'Hwl 'n 'wfq byn fkrty `n nfsy knsn@ ttklm bhdw wmnDbT@ tmm, nsn@ `l~ l'ql Hss@ `mwm l'mzj@ wmsh`r lakhryn.. wbyn mr'@ skhT@ wmjnwn@ tmm wfqd@ lkl mnfdh lsyTr@ `l~ lnfs wltfkyr l`qlny | depression mania manic-depression mental-illness psychology | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 9b921b9 | nHn jmy`an ntHrk bS`wb@ dkhl Hdwd qywdn | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| cda0a6c | I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, a.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| a987c5e | amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable..... But if love is not the cure, it certainly can act as a strong medicine. As John Donne has written, it is not so abstract as one might have thought and wished, but it does endure, and it does grow. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| d18b11c | But if love is not the cure, it certainly can act as a very strong medicine. | depression love mania mental-health mental-illness | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 1cd355e | There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Sensuality is perva.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 443a1b0 | There is no easy way to tell other people that you have manic-depressive illness; if there is, I haven't found it. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 2157799 | Because the privacy of my nightmare had been of my own designing, no one close to me had any real idea of the psychological company I had been keeping. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 42df2b0 | Sim sighed. "like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first." | shit true wish | Keith Gray | |
| 781a9e2 | We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward." ... "Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come." | great-quote scifi understatements | C.S. Friedman | |
| 6b710c0 | Last year, it cost the British taxpayers $57.8 million to maintain its royal family," wrote Robert Keith Gray in Presidential Perks Gone Royal. "During that same year, it cost American taxpayers some $1.4 billion to house and serve the Obamas in the White House, along with their families, friends and visiting campaign contributors." | Edward Klein | ||
| 31617dc | Look," she told me. "A good kreda is very hard to find. I invested a lot of time and memory in you. I had no intention of giving all that up, just because you were going to be in a bad mood for a decade or two." | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 605ca05 | He'd once had to fight off a pack of ghouls in below-zero weather with nothing on but a pair of socks, and it wasn't an experience he was anxious to repeat. He | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 632372f | As writer C. S. Lewis once observed, "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one." | Ron Friedman | ||
| c57bcf2 | Morality is the constant of human existence. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| b7d2041 | All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for? | dark fear short-sentences | C.S. Friedman | |
| 8268efe | My identity is without root. | scifi | C.S. Friedman | |
| 181c1cc | Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous." If there was an award for understatement, I thought, the Tyr would trounce all competition." | scifi understatements | C.S. Friedman | |
| 733eb0c | It struck Hsing suddenly that Masada didn't even understand the nature of his own genius. To him the patterns of thought and motive that he sensed in the virus were self-explanatory, and those who could not see them were simply not looking hard enough. Yet he would readily admit to his own inability to analyze more human contact, even on the most basic level. That was part and parcel of being iru. What a strange combination of skills and fl.. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 2dd83f9 | When takers win, there's usually someone else who loses. Research shows that people tend to envy successful takers and look for ways to knock them down a notch. In contrast, when givers like David Hornik win, people are rooting for them and supporting them, rather than gunning for them. Givers succeed in a way that creates a ripple effect, enhancing the success of people around them. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 73219e5 | If they think the behavior is safe, we should emphasize all the good things that will happen if they do it--they'll want to act immediately to obtain those certain gains. But when people believe a behavior is risky, that approach doesn't work. They're already comfortable with the status quo, so the benefits of change aren't attractive, and the stop system kicks in. Instead, we need to destabilize the status quo and accentuate the bad things.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| c0ad6de | To generate a handful of masterworks, Mozart composed more than 600 pieces before his death at thirty-five, Beethoven produced 650 in his lifetime, and Bach wrote over a thousand. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 1667d0c | Entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit. If you're risk averse and have some doubts about the feasibility of your ideas, it's likely that your business will be built to last. If you're a freewheeling gambler, your startup is far more fragile. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 6e58c00 | The greatest communicators of all time," says communication expert Nancy Duarte--who has spent her career studying the shape of superb presentations--start by establishing "what is: here's the status quo." Then, they "compare that to what could be," making "that gap as big as possible." | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 52bb4f6 | A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 5d59c8c | I'm not a machine, Evening. I'm a man. And you made me to be free. You did that, right?" "Yes. Yes." I made him to be free? No responsibility there. Yes, I made him to be free. I wonder what else I made him to be." -- | Michael Grant | ||
| 0a21838 | When the average candidate was clumsy, audiences liked him even less. But when the expert was clumsy, audiences liked him even more. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| b57cea2 | If you're going to build a strong culture, it's paramount to make diversity one of your core values. This is what separates Bridgewater's strong culture from a cult: The commitment is to promoting dissent. In hiring, instead of using similarity to gauge cultural fit, Bridgewater assesses cultural contribution.* Dalio wants people who will think independently and enrich the culture. By holding them accountable for dissenting, Dalio has funda.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 7b96892 | As Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and decision expert Gary Klein explain, intuitions are only trustworthy when people build up experience making judgments in a predictable environment. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 9b0bb54 | Many entrepreneurs take plenty of risks--but those are generally the failed entrepreneurs, not the success stories. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 2272445 | The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists. I've spent more than a decade studying this, and it turns out to be far less difficult than I expected. The starting point is curiosity: pondering why the default exists in the first place. We're driven to question defaults when we experience vuja de, the opposite of deja vu. Deja vu occurs when we encounter something new, but it feels as if w.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| ee8337d | Teachers' beliefs created self-fulfilling prophecies. When teachers believed their students were bloomers, they set high expectations for their success. As a result, the teachers engaged in more supportive behaviors that boosted the students' confidence and enhanced their learning and development | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 5d08b99 | But when I looked at the evidence, I was dismayed to discover that even today, speaking while female remains notoriously difficult. Across | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 6584ef0 | People who suffer the most from a given state of affairs are paradoxically the least likely to question, challenge, reject, or change it." To explain this peculiar phenomenon, Jost's team developed a theory of system justification. Its core idea is that people are motivated to rationalize the status quo as legitimate--even if it goes directly against their interests. In one study, they tracked Democratic and Republican voters before the 200.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 578b892 | Parent and Teacher Actions: 1. Ask children what their role models would do. Children feel free to take initiative when they look at problems through the eyes of originals. Ask children what they would like to improve in their family or school. Then have them identify a real person or fictional character they admire for being unusually creative and inventive. What would that person do in this situation? 2. Link good behaviors to moral chara.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 5f478fc | a perspective gap: when we're not experiencing a psychologically or physically intense state, we dramatically underestimate how much it will affect us. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| f9dc1ad | Indeed, Cialdini finds that people donate more money to charity when the phrase "even a penny will help" is added to a request." | Adam M. Grant | ||
| d9d733d | New research shows that advice seeking is a surprisingly effective strategy for exercising influence when we lack authority. In | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 39730dd | Consider the four responses to dissatisfaction: exit, voice, persistence, and neglect. Only exit and voice improve your circumstances. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 5193816 | There's a particular kind of explanation that works especially well in enforcing discipline. When the Oliners examined the guidance of the Holocaust rescuers' parents, they found that they tended to give "explanations of why behaviors are inappropriate, often with reference to their consequences for others." While the bystanders' parents focused on enforcing compliance with rules for their own sake, the rescuers' parents encouraged their ch.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 2e93846 | Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity, but it can be a resource for creativity. Long before the modern obsession with efficiency precipitated by the Industrial Revolution and the Protestant work ethic, civilizations recognized the benefits of procrastination. In ancient Egypt, there were two different verbs for procrastination: one denoted laziness; the other meant waiting for the right time. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 1882b00 | Simonton finds that on average, creative geniuses weren't qualitatively better in their fields than their peers. They simply produced a greater volume of work, which gave them more variation and a higher chance of originality. "The odds of producing an influential or successful idea," Simonton notes, are "a positive function of the total number of ideas generated." Consider Shakespeare: we're most familiar with a small number of his classic.. | Adam M. Grant |