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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5a77822 | We have grown addicted to our high salaries, and now we are really going to have to earn them," the CEO said." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 4313de0 | On any given day, according to UPS, 2 percent of the world's GDP can be found in UPS delivery trucks or package cars. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| da4357b | Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye. | extremism ideology openness prejudice | Thomas L. Friedman | |
| 8ca7141 | People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so. | leadership motivation passion | Thomas L. Friedman | |
| 71268f0 | In May 2012--a year after the Arab awakening erupted--the United States made two financial commitments to the Arab world that each began with the numbers 1 and 3. The U.S. gave Egypt's military regime $1.3 billion worth of tanks and fighter jets. It also gave Lebanese public school students a $13.5 million merit-based college scholarship program, putting 117 Lebanese kids through local American-style colleges that promote tolerance, gender .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| ada090c | No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation. | relationships risk | Thomas L. Friedman | |
| aa6cfb8 | It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening. | perspective | Thomas L. Friedman | |
| 155df80 | I got to see with my own eyes the boundaries of men's compassion alongside their unfathomable brutality, their ingenuity alongside astounding folly, their insanity alongside their infinite ability to endure. Of | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 79d8e95 | This gruesome and absurd doorstep suicide symbolized for me the mood of Beirut at the end of 1983 and in early 1984--a mood of dashed hopes and utter desperation. The Marines had come to Beirut to project strength, presence, security, and calm, while the Lebanese resolved their differences and rebuilt their nation. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 64b805c | I know a lot about this subject because I saw a healthy community get built, brick by brick, block by block, neighbor by neighbor, close up. It was the one that I grew up in: St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| af71b30 | It was like working in a dark cave with the aid of a single candle. Just when you thought you had spotted the white light of Truth, you would chase it, only to discover that it was someone else, also holding a candle, also looking for the light. A | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 7305fd0 | One is that you should never take no for an answer. There is always some way to make a sale if you have confidence in your merchandise. Just because a customer says no doesn't mean he isn't buying. You just have to sift your way through all the rhetoric and get to the heart of the deal. The | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 4059a47 | This Levantine spirit developed gradually in Beirut after the Industrial Revolution, as the burgeoning Lebanese silk trade and the invention of the steamboat combined to bring men and women of America and Western Europe in large numbers to the Levant. These settlers from the West were Catholic and Protestant missionaries, diplomats, and merchants, Jewish traders, travelers and physicians; and they brought with them Western commerce, manners.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 71b03e5 | As the Lebanese sociologist Samir Khalaf summed it up: "Though the average Lebanese derives much ... social support and psychological reinforcement from ... local and communal allegiances, these forces are the same elements that ... prompt him on occasion to violate and betray his society's normative standards. The Lebanese is being demoralized, in other words, by the very forces that are supposed to make him a more human and sociable being.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 4fde1e1 | When American astronaut Neil Armstrong, a devout Christian, visited Israel after his trip to the moon, he was taken on a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologist Meir Ben-Dov. When they got to the Hulda Gate, which is at the top of the stairs leading to the Temple Mount, Armstrong asked Ben-Dov whether Jesus had stepped anywhere around there. "I told him, 'Look, Jesus was a Jew,'" recalled Ben-Dov. "These are the steps tha.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 6987b26 | One of the strengths of Labor Zionism had always been its strong pragmatic outlook, its philosophy that a new reality can be built only by careful planning and then constructing things brick by brick, acre after acre. It | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 7609fa1 | Second, in the desert there was no outside mediator or government to enforce laws or to adjudicate disputes in a neutral way between tribes when they resorted to predatory behavior in order to survive. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 504fd6e | When I arrived at St. Louis Park High in September 1968, I took journalism as a sophomore from our then legendary high school journalism teacher, Hattie M. Steinberg. People often speak about the teachers who changed their lives. Hattie changed mine. I took her introductory journalism course in tenth grade, in room 313, and have never needed, or taken, another course in journalism since. It was not that I was that good. It was that she was .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| cc314ae | Technology creates possibilities for new behaviors and experiences and connection," he added, "but it takes human beings to make the behaviors principled, the experiences meaningful and connections deeper and rooted in shared values and aspirations." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 720f9b4 | My time in the Middle East led me to realize that, with a few rare exceptions, the dominant political ideology there--whether you were talking about Sunnis or Shiites or Kurds, Israelis, Arabs, Persians, Turks, or Palestinians--was "I am weak, how can I compromise? I am strong, why should I compromise?" The notion of there being "a common good" and "a middle ground" that we all compromise for and upon--not to mention a higher community call.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 42b1659 | When I asked Marine Sergeant Jeffrey Roberts what he thought was happening in Lebanon, he explained, "To me it was a civil war, only it wasn't just the North against the South. It was North against South, East against West, Northeast against Southwest, Southeast against Northwest, and we were in the middle of it all. There were just too many different sides. If we picked one, we had four others against us." Marine" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| a577653 | Social conservatives from the right wing of the Republican party, who do not like globalization or closer integration with the world because it brings too many foreigners and foreign cultural mores into America, might align themselves with unions from the left wing of the Democratic Party, who don't like globalization for the way it facilitates the outsourcing and offshoring of jobs. They might be called the Wall Party... | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| c30ba09 | Here and elsewhere, desertification acts as the trigger; climate change and population growth act as amplifiers; interethnic and tribal conflicts are the political by-product, and WhatsApp provides both an alluring picture of where things might be better--Europe--and a cheap tool for hopping a migration caravan to get there. "In the old days," says Barbut, "we could just give them a Live Aid concert in Europe or America and then forget abou.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| eb9f925 | Another way Mother Nature builds resilience is by being very federal in how she self-organizes. She nests her communities--which are analogous to states, counties, and towns--within a flexible framework that makes the whole more than the sum of its parts. That is, she's built on trillions and trillions of small-scale networks, starting with microorganisms and building into bigger and bigger ecosystems. But each one is a little community, na.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 140bbd0 | Some of our bonding moments were times of great tragedy, but there were many happy memories as well. Though we each have since retreated to the different worlds from whence we came, the bond between us will never be broken. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| b132689 | Lin Wells, who teaches strategy at the National Defense University. According to Wells, it is fanciful to suppose that you can opine about or explain this world by clinging to the inside or outside of any one rigid explanatory box or any single disciplinary silo. Wells describes three ways of thinking about a problem: "inside the box," "outside the box," and "where there is no box." The only sustainable approach to thinking today about prob.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 9a48fb1 | I'm going to win the girls' race this week. | Lois Lowry | ||
| e8ae3bc | she looked into the face of the soldier | Lois Lowry | ||
| 5e661c8 | Get up early and go to bed late. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| e473340 | In the Fen, iffen they give you something special, it be a kick in your buttie. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d0a07ce | He began saying "chugga chugga chugga" when he walked down the hall of the apartment. He was practicing being trained." | Lois Lowry | ||
| 8033795 | I had no idea that such individuals existed outside of stories. A STUDY IN SCARLET, SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE | Brittany Cavallaro | ||
| c94ec6d | That was it, sir. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| a624d69 | Perchance you shall, fair sir," said Nigel, "for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for when Sir Robert has spoken to you, I am free to do with you as I will." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 8f4da7f | In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. --Sherlock Holmes, in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet | Siddhartha Mukherjee | ||
| 5bafc8c | My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. | intelligence | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 82877e4 | What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 02372e4 | You can understand,' said Holmes very suavely, 'that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| d6fa30f | Holmes smiled, and clapped Lestrade upon the shoulder. "Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that your reputation has been enormously enhanced. Just make a few alterations in that report which you were writing, and they will understand how hard it is to throw dust in the eyes of Inspector Lestrade." "And you don't want your name to appear?" "Not at all. The work is its own reward. Perhaps I shall get the credit also at some d.. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 334ba0c | That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now..." -Sherlock Holmes- -The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pips-" | crime | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| b639d54 | Well," said Lestrade, "I've seen you handle a good many cases, Mr. Holmes, but I don't know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than that. We're not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are very proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow, there's not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn't be glad to shake you by the hand." | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| bfe1246 | You seem very qualified, sir, to express the negative one. At the same time I would repeat in my own person the words of Thackeray. He said to some objector: 'What you say is natural, but if you had seen what I have seen you might alter your opinion'. Perhaps sometime you will be able to look into the matter, for your high position in the scientific world would give your opinion great weight. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 03ac7c3 | As recently as 1950, the Scottish pathologist John Glaister included in his text the tale of a man "who was apprehended after having been seen to have unnatural intercourse with a duck," leaving us to wonder precisely what natural intercourse with a duck would involve." | E.J. Wagner | ||
| 23efab6 | Passionately encouraged by her aunt, Marie married Charles and traveled with him to his home. She was shocked to discover that [the magnificent chateau] Le Glandier was actually a festering pile of crumbling stone - cold, gray, grim and forbidding. Worse, it was inhabited by Charles's mother, who was also cold, gray, grim, and forbidding. | E.J. Wagner |