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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cb03858 | Did you know that smiling politely burns up the same amount of calories as speaking your mind. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 175c72e | teachers are no accident! You study to become a teacher! You work at it for years. So I cannot, and will not forgive teachers who are abusive, mean, and torture kids with commas and periods and misspelling, making them feel like they are less than human because they don't or can't seem to get it right. | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| 5cf4b85 | I don't care about periods or commas or misspellings at this time, even though this is English class. What I want to do is to get you so excited about reading and writing that the love of learning will be with you for the rest of your lives. I don't want to hinder your natural joy of wanting to venture into a world of books and writing and wanting to learn. | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| ca4fb56 | Inside, the midwife was trying to get Socorro to open her mouth wide and let the pain come out. "Open your mouth," said Angelina, massaging Socorro's neck and shoulders, "and let out what you feel. Don't keep it in, querida, let it out." Socorro cried softly at first, but little by little she loosened up and she began to let out long, ear-piercing screams. "Good," said the midwife, "now breathe deeply, deeply, and then cry out again, letti.. | pain pregnancy resilience | Victor Villaseñor | |
| 84aa7e7 | That's all we need, another drunk author. | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| a92899f | I wonder what the years have gathered in the bags. I bet it's like looking through old trunks, old letters and photographs, an old shoe or two. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 56cf502 | The gaze of her clear eyes held them transfixed. "You must understand that when anybody, bruja or curandera, priest or sinner, tampers with the fate of a man that sometimes a chain of events is set into motion over which no one will have ultimate control. You must be willing to accept this responsibility." | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| b25adff | It was very sad to see my father cry, but I understood it, because sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 32fdf8c | Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 21f11a3 | Why are they like that?" I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. "I don't know," Cico answered, "except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other--and it's worse when they're in a group." | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 0a66997 | I asked Go to answer my questions, but the only sound was always the whistling of the wind filling the empty space. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 769dd83 | Economically, New Mexico ranks low, but we know the real treasure lies in the people, the landscape, and the history of its many communities. Here, people have struggled and survived for years, and they have not lost sight of the prize. We believe our region is a spiritual corridor; the earth nurtures us, and our deities can be invoked for the good of the community. Here, Native Americans have been saying prayers and keeping the world in ba.. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| ac605a2 | I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don't understand those things and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it." - Gabriel Marez" | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 3b27705 | Tonight the song you always despised strides from the jukebox full-bodied and you hear the lyrics for the first time, understand the lyrics for the first time after all these years. This new you with an older soul. Now it's your favorite. All this time singing the wrong words. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| d988171 | The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its clear flutelike song diminishes to silence, the trapped moment grows withered and without life. | loss | Alan Lightman | |
| 4ddc1a5 | In time, there are an infinity of worlds. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 0edb996 | At the beginning of each session, one of us will begin talking about some random idea, another person will chime in or change the subject, and miraculously, after twenty minutes, we find that we have zeroed in on a question that everyone is passionate about. What continues to astonish me is the frequency with which religion slips into the room, unbidden but persistent. | Alan Lightman | ||
| f003c0e | Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives? | Alan Lightman | ||
| 4fe888b | But why are we attracted to symmetry? Why do we human beings delight in seeing perfectly round planets through the lens of a telescope and six-sided snowflakes on a cold winter day? The answer must be partly psychological. I would claim that symmetry represents order, and we crave order in this strange universe we find ourselves in. The search for symmetry, and the emotional pleasure we derive when we find it, must help us make sense of the.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 1d1926a | Using technology, we have redefined ourselves in such a way that our immediate surroundings and relationships, our immediate sensory perceptions of the world, are much diminished in relevance. We have trained ourselves not to be present. We have extended our bodies, created enhanced selves that might be called our "techno-selves." Our techno-selves are both bigger and smaller than our former selves. Bigger in that we have tremendous powers .. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 22a52ee | Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly. For the most part, people do not know they will live their lives over. Traders do not know that they will make the same bargain again. Politicians do not know they will shout from the same lectern an infinite number of times in the cycle of time. Parents treasure the first laugh from their child as if they will not hear it again. Lovers making .. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 2860dc7 | Over many centuries science has weakened the hold of religion, not by disproving the existence of God, but by invalidating arguments for God based on what we observe in the natural world. The multiverse idea offers an explanation of why we find ourselves in a universe favorable to life that does not rely on the benevolence of a creator, and so if correct will leave still less support for religion. | god multiverse theism | Alan Lightman | |
| 0d2e86d | From Alan Lightman's intricate 1993 novel Einstein's Dreams; set in Berne in 1905: With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great-grandparents, great-aunts... and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own... Such is the cost of immortality. No person is.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| ff9e100 | He had a problem, like any other problem. The problem just hadn't been well posed. The problem was: Should he leave Penny or not? | Alan Lightman | ||
| f162d13 | We often do not see what we do not expect to see. | Alan Lightman | ||
| d6f1ef2 | Aku ingin mendekati waktu karena aku ingin mendekati Tuhan. | tuhan waktu | Alan Lightman | |
| fb5ef87 | Evidently, the fundamental laws of nature do not pin down a single and unique universe. According to the current thinking of many physicists, we are living in one of a vast number of universes. We are living in an accidental universe. We are living in a universe uncalculable by science. | multiverse | Alan Lightman | |
| 7971585 | Why does such fine-tuning occur? And the answer many physicists now believe: the multiverse. A vast number of universes may exist, with many different values of the amount of dark energy. Our particular hat containing zillions of universes, we happened to draw a universe that allowed life. | fine-tuning fine-tuning-argument multiverse | Alan Lightman | |
| f28ec72 | For many years, a family of ospreys lived in a large nest near my summer home in Maine. Each season, I carefully observed their rituals and habits. In mid-April, the parents would arrive, having spent the winter in South America, and lay eggs. In early June, the eggs hatched. The babies slowly grew, as the father brought fish back to the nest, and in early to mid August were large enough to make their first flight. My wife and I recorded al.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| dd9cbc5 | In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man's equal. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| ce58b6d | Make a career of humanity. Make it a central part of your life. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 859523b | The more you try to force it, I learned, the less likely you are to succeed. True missions, it turns out, require two things. First you need career capital, which requires patience. Second, you need to be ceaselessly scanning your always-changing view of the adjacent possible in your field, looking for the next big idea. This requires a dedication to brainstorming and exposure to new ideas. Combined, these two commitments describe a lifesty.. | Cal Newport | ||
| 35fa107 | First, when you focus only on what your work offers you, it makes you hyperaware of what you don't like about it, leading to chronic unhappiness. | Cal Newport | ||
| c85471b | If you spend too much time focusing on whether or not you've found your true calling, the question will be rendered moot when you find yourself out of work. | Cal Newport | ||
| 3abbd0b | The Law of Financial Viability When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing to pay for it. If you find this evidence, continue. If not, move on. When | Cal Newport | ||
| fbb717a | Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that's exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands.... Deliberate practice is above all an effort of focus and concentration. That is what makes it "deliberate," as distinct from the mindless playing of scales or hitting of tennis balls that most people engage in." | Cal Newport | ||
| 53834a7 | Summary of Rule #4 The core idea of this book is simple: To construct work you love, you must first build career capital by mastering rare and valuable skills, and then cash in this capital for the type of traits that define compelling careers. Mission is one of those traits. In the first chapter of this rule, I reinforced the idea that this trait, like all desirable career traits, really does require career capital--you can't skip straight.. | Cal Newport | ||
| 9d0ce0c | Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets... it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done. When | Cal Newport | ||
| 41ff0e3 | The 4 Disciplines of Execution, | Cal Newport | ||
| acf9a82 | the deep work novice. As I established in the opening to this rule, the ability to rapidly switch your mind from shallow to deep mode doesn't come naturally. Without practice, such switches can seriously deplete your finite willpower reserves. This habit also requires a sense of confidence in your abilities--a conviction that what you're doing is important and will succeed. This type of conviction is typically built on a foundation of exist.. | Cal Newport | ||
| 7125ff7 | When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing to pay for it. If you find this evidence, continue. If not, move on. | Cal Newport | ||
| e2fe84b | Do What Steve Jobs Did, Not What He Said | Cal Newport | ||
| caee6a5 | the craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you. This mindset is how most people approach their working lives. | Cal Newport | ||
| eb48c16 | If a young Steve Jobs had taken his own advice and decided to only pursue work he loved, we would probably find him today as one of the Los Altos Zen Center's most popular teachers. | Cal Newport |