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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2738b80 | Derimin altina girdin ve kanima karisip kalbimi ele gecirdin | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| d090a10 | Ari grunted a greeting. "What took you... so long?" His breath huffed with the effort. "I stopped for a snack, and ordered us a couple beers," Janco said. "We should finish him soon. I hate warm beer." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 1f5d8ca | He hadn't dreamed it. And he couldn't even gloat about it-what a horrible time to lose his voice. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| ff49193 | Janco smiled with a predatory grin. "If anyone beats us. And I'm feeling disinclined to allow that to happen." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| db212bc | The creator had nothing to do with her rescue." "Yeah, he should have cried, thank the Flea!" Quain said. "Ooh, I like. We should use it all the time," Loren added. They tried out variations of it as they headed inside with Flea trotting behind them. "Guess" | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| ac56f13 | Tu me conectas a la tierra. Cuando estoy en la costa-hizo un gesto hacia la parte oeste del horizonte-, y danzando, puedo facilmente perderme en la energia y personalidad de la tormenta. Solo queria hacer eso despues de que mi hermana muriese, pero tu me mantuviste conectado. Me diste una razon para volver. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 309f56d | I reached 1400 weeks, the age of maturity. The age when you were no longer considered a child. It was when you became a scrub and the reality of what the rest of your life would be like became suddenly and brutally apparent. The old-timers called it sweet sixteen, but there wasn't anything sweet about it. I | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| fc9a88d | Le tire de la camisa, queriendo besa su piel. El se aparto y se irguio. -?En la sala de guerra, amor? ?Y si entra alguien? Yo me puse en pie y le quite la camisa. -Entonces tendran una historia muy buena que contar. -?Una historia muy buena? - dijo el, y fingio que se ofendia. -Demuestrame lo contrario. A el se le iluminaron los ojos con el desafio. | yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| a2ca022 | The big man shifted in his seat, appearing uncomfortable. "Do you really believe we would eliminate someone you're in love with?" I sputtered. "I'm not--" Ari held up a hand. "He's helping you, then. That's important to us." Staring at him in shock, I finally asked, "Love trumps logic?" "Every time," Valek said." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| ef7b4dc | Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should have. A simplistic and unrealistic view I knew, but it soothed me. | kiki love minimalism-essentials sweets water yelena-zaltana | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 16459c2 | Old soul." I laughed. "You're Thirty." "It's not the years, it's the experience," he paused." | experience janco old-soul opal-cowan | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 24d5888 | No puedo existir sin ti, asi que matar a Galen no es una opcion. Preferiria perderte por el Stormdancer, que perderte en el cielo. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| ba556ee | Anyway, the odds were against you. Most lost big, while only a few--" Rand paused dramatically "--won big." "Since you're here, I suppose you won big." He smiled. "Yelena, I'm always going to bet on you. You're like one of the Commander's terriers. A tiny, yappy dog you wouldn't look at twice, but once it grabs your pant leg, it won't let go." "Poison the dog's meat and it won't bother you anymore." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 93afb58 | The man must be torturing me on purpose. I had made him wait over two months. Perhaps he was returning the favor. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 98c26a5 | Stay Safe,' I ordered. He smiled. 'I'm not the one getting pulled into fires, love. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 3ed3cda | Yelena, wake up." Leif shook my shoulder. I peered at him through heavy eyes. He placed the lantern on the table. "You're the one who set the schedule. Come on." He pulled the blanket off me. "Most commanders don't take a turn guarding the troops. They get a good night's sleep so they can make the right decisions in the morning." I sat on the edge of the bed, rubbing my eyes. "I'm not a commander and we're not a troop." "I disagree. You've .. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 0c30d3e | Yelena? Hello?" Leif poked my arm. "I'm here." "What are we going to do?" Leif asked me. "It's too late to go anywhere else. Kiki and the horses will watch the outside of the building and alert me if anyone approaches." "Ooh, guard horses. How quaint." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| e105f4a | Parents teach their children to share, to play fair, to be honest. But...surprise! Life isn't fair. And it takes a while to transition from the childhood lies to the adult reality. I | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| aab22f0 | That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men came to Guinea to strip-mine field hands. ... black people did not die ... the decedent ... took up residence in an afterworld that was in many ways indistinguishable from his former estate. | race race-america slave-trade slavery | David Bradley | |
| 88ff2b0 | In a failed attempt to ease my concerns over that, a few emails came to me explaining how some other members of the board were even less competent than McLeroy. For example, Vice Chairman David Bradley famously said, "This critical thinking stuff is gobbledygook. Students need to be able to jump to their own conclusions." Yes," | Aron Ra | ||
| 22772e1 | And so he set about restoring them, using the tricks he had learned over the years. He went to them, speaking to each of them in tones so low that none of the others could hear, getting their names, gently touching them, asking about their pains, their fears, gently eliciting their stories, reminding them of why they had run in the first place. | love stories | David Bradley | |
| 44566b4 | porque despues de cierta edad la vida es dura es dura y dolorosa, un reflejo de ilusiones de repente la soledad al fondo del abismo se ve con claridad | enrique-vila-matas john-fante roberto-bolaño | Maciel Alcala | |
| 0571d2c | Donald Trump was building a pyramid in the Nevada desert to house his eventual remains. When done, it will be ten meters taller than the Great Pyramid at Giza. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 657dde2 | Mr. Lockery--my biology teacher--says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we'd have nothing to worry about. Dogs, wolves, and bears would make short work of tyrannosaurs." She nodded at Schrodinger, who was now padding across the floor in the opposite direction. "Big cats, too. They're faster, tougher, and brighter than anything that existed seventy million years ago. Everything is always ramping up, always escalating.. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| ee9ce22 | There is no debt between people who are in love; there is only total forgiveness, and going forward. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 99201e0 | Sentir la necesidad de convencer a los demas de que uno tiene razon es algo que procede de la religion. Yo simplemente me contento con saber que tengo razon, aunque los demas no lo sepan. | religion | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| 9d4c4c7 | a 2010 University of Michigan study shows that college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than they were thirty years ago, with much of the drop having occurred since 2000. (The study's authors speculate that the decline in empathy is related to the prevalence of social media, reality TV, and "hyper-competitiveness.")" | Susan Cain | ||
| b2d61f8 | Kuhnen and Brian Knutson have found that men who are shown erotic pictures just before they gamble take more risks than those shown neutral images like desks and chairs. This is because anticipating rewards--any rewards, whether or not related to the subject at hand--excites our dopamine-driven reward networks and makes us act more rashly. | Susan Cain | ||
| aeae5fb | Conversely, high-reactive children may be more likely to develop into artists and writers and scientists and thinkers because their aversion to novelty causes them to spend time inside the familiar--and intellectually fertile--environment of their own heads. | Susan Cain | ||
| a9632b8 | The New Groupthink is also practiced in our schools, via an increasingly popular method of instruction called "cooperative" or "small group" learning. In many elementary schools, the traditional rows of seats facing the teacher have been replaced with "pods" of four or more desks pushed together to facilitate countless group learning activities. Even subjects like math and creative writing, which would seem to depend on solo flights of thou.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 8ea3fb0 | When people are skilled at adopting free traits, it can be hard to believe that they're acting out of character. Professor Little's students are usually incredulous when he claims to be an introvert. But Little is far from unique; many people, especially those in leadership roles, engage in a certain level of pretend-extroversion. Consider, for example, my friend Alex, the socially adept head of a financial services company, who agreed to g.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 7fa2ea2 | But the catharsis hypothesis is a myth-- a plausible one, an elegant one, but a myth nonetheless. Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it. | Susan Cain | ||
| 7c4b703 | It makes sense, then, that Westerners value boldness and verbal skill, traits that promote individuality, while Asians prize quiet, humility, and sensitivity, which foster group cohesion. If you live in a collective, then things will go a lot more smoothly if you behave with restraint, even submission. | Susan Cain | ||
| e0f70ba | Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They're associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure. Open-plan workers are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and elevated stress levels and to get the flu; they argue more with their colleagues; they worry about coworkers eavesdropping on their phone calls and spying on their computer screens. They have.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 78d26f5 | If you want your child to learn these skills, don't let her hear you call her "shy": she'll believe the label and experience her nervousness as a fixed trait rather than an emotion she can control. She also knows full well that "shy" is a negative word in our society. Above all, do not shame her for her shyness." | Susan Cain | ||
| db5ca80 | The "evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups," writes the organizational psychologist Adrian Furnham. "If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority." | Susan Cain | ||
| 1e1f862 | We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts--which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. | Susan Cain | ||
| 6e5c782 | America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality | Susan Cain | ||
| 7d459bb | can be hard for extroverts to understand how badly introverts need to recharge at the end of a busy day. We all empathize with a sleep-deprived mate who comes home from work too tired to talk, but it's harder to grasp that social overstimulation can be just as exhausting. It's also hard for introverts to understand just how hurtful their silence can be. I | Susan Cain | ||
| 90dae3a | Will this job allow me to spend time on in-character activities like, for example, reading, strategizing, writing, and researching? Will I have a private workspace or be subject to the constant demands of an open office plan? If the job doesn't give me enough restorative niches, will I have enough free time on evenings and weekends to grant them to myself? | Susan Cain | ||
| 9ffa475 | Manche Menschen sind sich aller Dinge sicherer als ich mir einer einzigen Sache. Robert Rubin | Susan Cain | ||
| a1a11a5 | it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading initiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are more likely to hear and implement suggestions. | Susan Cain | ||
| 61f7a9d | A martial arts instructor named Lateesha was first up that evening. Lateesha's assignment was to read aloud to the class from a Robert Frost poem. With her dreadlocks and wide smile, Lateesha looked as if she wasn't afraid of anything. But as she got ready to speak, her book propped open at the podium, Charles asked how anxious she was, on a scale of 1 to 10. "At least seven," said Lateesha. "Take it slow," he said. "There are only a few pe.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 0842279 | But the same receptivity to experience that can make life difficult for the highly sensitive also builds their consciences. Aron tells of one sensitive teen who persuaded his mother to feed a homeless person he'd met in the park, and of another eight-year-old who cried | Susan Cain |