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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f184276 | I'm fine." I ground my teeth. "I swear if I hear that from you or Solange one more time I'm duct-taping your mouths shut." "Can I duct-tape yours shut?" I grinned. "Like that would stop me." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 57baa69 | Can we just do this recon thing?" "I can multitask," I assured him, peering into the shadows of the first alley we passed. "Cat, raccoon in Dumpster, smell of pee," I catalogued for him. " See? Now talk." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| cf5cc3e | I yawned so widely a bear could've mistaken my mouth for a cave and crawled in to hibernate for the winter. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 167cd00 | The vampires, wounded and annoyed, scaled the brick wall and vanished over the rooftops. I stopped shrieking. The silence thrummed around us. My throat was raw. Kieran rubbed his ears. "Is there blood? Am I blind?" "Don't you mean deaf?" I croaked. "No." He half smiled. "You scream louder than mere ear damage." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| cec8349 | So what's plan B, exactly?" "You heard Saga." I glanced at Connor. "The bogs. Saga said there are some runaway with collars living there. So I'll be bait. They'll chase me, thinking I'm weak. And then you'll grab one." Quinn looked at Connor then groaned. "On my God, it's like talking to Lucy." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| b924a80 | What's going on, miscreant?" Logan stood in the doorway, wearing his favorite frock coat as usual, but there were rips in his jeans. I lifted my eyebrows at his pants. "Holes?" He was impeccable about his fancy goth clothes. "Isabeau," he admitted ruefully. "The Hounds are a great tribe, but they have no sense of fashion." "So she tore your jeans?" He grinned. "No, she tore at a . I just happened to get in the way." I grinned back at him. .. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 8866fc5 | Helena paused. "Lucy?" "Yes?" She ran a hand over my hair and kissed my cheek, just like she kissed Solange's cheek when Solange was little. "We love you very much. But your mother and I will both lock you in a basement for the rest of your life if you try to follow us." She speared Kieran with the kind of look that made us all squirm even though it wasn't even aimed at us. "We're trusting you to take her back to school where it's safe." He.. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| f4436dd | Madame Vernoique arched an eyebrow imperiously. "Due to being exiled, your parents have been ... isolated in these mountains." "Did she just call us hillbillies?" Quinn drawled. "Hey," Duncan broke in mildly. "Some of my friends are hillbillies." "Are they horror-movie mountain folk like us?" "I'll be sure to ask Bryn next time I see her." -- | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 5bb2d4f | A girl in long pigtails nearly closed the door on her thumb as I approached. Her friend nudged her. She nudged back. They whispered furiously to each other. I overheard a lot of "you ask her" and "no, you ask her". And then the second girl shoved her friend right into my path, solving the argument." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 4b323b5 | Kieran, can you make a run for it with Lucy?" Nicholas asked. "'You can take one of the Jeeps," he added as Logan tossed Kieran his keys. "I'm not leaving you guys," I sputtered. "When did you fall and hit your head?" "Lucy, you're out of arrows and we're out of options." He darted a quick glance at Quinn, who was behind me. I grabbed a fistful of Nicholas's shirt. "I'm not leaving you, you big dumb idiot." I whipped my head around and shot.. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| fdd64de | Think they'll work it out?" Nicholas asked. "The emo twins?" I asked. "They love each other, so yes. Plus, I plan to smack their heads together." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 6ed13ca | The more magic you used to keep monsters away, the more monsters were drawn to you. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 683257d | They love. They laugh. They die. If that's not living, what is? | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 50b4eea | I had a dream about you where you were an economic hero. So is the real life you like the dream you? Answer this question: If Paul Krugman and Ben Bernanke were about to die, and they only had 59 seconds left, and you could only save one, would you take a minute to think it over? | Jarod Kintz | ||
| 142ee76 | In the scientific world, the syndrome known as 'great man's disease' happens when a famous researcher in one field develops strong opinions about another field that he or she does not understand, such as a chemist who decides that he is an expert in medicine or a physicist who decides that he is an expert in cognitive science. They have trouble accepting that they must go back to school before they can make pronouncements in a new field. | Paul Krugman | ||
| 3e3dacd | These senior claims were supposed to be very low-risk; after all, how likely was it that a large number of people would default on their mortgages at the same time? The answer, of course, is that it was quite likely in an environment where homes were worth 30, 40, 50 percent less than the borrowers originally paid for them. So a lot of supposedly safe assets, assets that had been rated AAA by Standard & Poor's or Moody's, ended up becoming .. | Paul Krugman | ||
| af496ee | In 1953 Time magazine, declaring that "the real news of the nation's political future and its economic direction lies in people who seldom see a reporter," sent one of its contributing editors, Alvin Josephy, on a national tour. His mission was to get a sense of America. The portrait he painted bore little resemblance to the America of 1929. Where the America of the twenties had been a land of extremes, of vast wealth for a few but hard tim.. | Paul Krugman | ||
| e697023 | A series of studies by Marian Radke-Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the National Institute of Mental Health showed that a large part of this difference in empathic concern had to do with how parents disciplined their children. Children, they found, were more empathic when the discipline included calling strong attention to the distress their misbehavior caused someone else: "Look how sad you've made her feel" instead of "That was naughty... | Daniel Goleman | ||
| bcb8e99 | La vida es una comedia para quienes piensan y una tragedia para quienes sienten. Horace Walpole | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 0b2cf67 | Whenever you notice your mind wandering," a fundamental instruction in meditation advises, "bring your mind back to its point of focus." The operative phrase here is whenever you notice. As our mind drifts off, we almost never notice the moment it launches into some other orbit on its own." | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 84810ec | pain "is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 87aed42 | The worst period I ever went through at work," a friend confides, "was when the company was restructuring and people were being 'disappeared' daily, followed by lying memos that they were leaving 'for personal reasons.' No one could focus while that fear was in the air. No real work got done." Small wonder. The greater the anxiety we feel, the more impaired is the brain's cognitive efficiency. In this zone of mental misery, distracting thou.. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| fe6c20a | Our memories are in part reconstructions. Whenever we retrieve a memory, the brain rewrites it a bit, updating the past according to our present concerns and understanding. At the cellular level, LeDoux explains, retrieving a memory means it will be "reconsolidated," slightly altered chemically by a new protein synthesis that will help store it anew after being updated.40 Thus each time we bring a memory to mind, we adjust its very chemistr.. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| c65cd5d | Whatever a student hears in class or reads in a book travels these pathways as he masters yet another iota of understanding. Indeed, everything that happens to us in life, all the details that we will remember, depend on the hippocampus to stay with us. The continual retention of memories demands a frenzy of neuronal activity. In fact, the vast majority of neurogenesis--the brain's production of new neurons and laying down of connections to.. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| f79befd | As Marcus Aurelius said millennia ago, pain "is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." | Daniel Goleman | ||
| c2411f6 | the workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| c9d339b | The most powerful form of nondefensive listening, of course, is empathy: actually hearing the feelings behind what is being said. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| af14115 | Los pensamientos obsesivos son la lena que alimenta el fuego de la ira, un fuego que solo podra extinguirse contemplando las cosas desde un punto de vista diferente | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 55b28db | La mente creativa es un don sagrado y la mente racional un sirviente fiel -dijo, en cierta ocasion, Albert Einstein-. Por ello resulta muy curioso que hayamos creado una sociedad que, olvidando el don, haya acabado honrando al sirviente.>> | Daniel Goleman | ||
| c8f4875 | Una de las claves para intensificar nuestra conexion con el estado de flujo consiste en sintonizar lo que hacemos con lo que nos gusta, como sucede en el caso de quienes tienen la inmensa fortuna de disfrutar de su trabajo. Las personas con exito son, independientemente del entorno considerado, las que han sabido dar con esa combinacion. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 9d91d1e | Our sense of well-being depends to some extent on others regarding us as a You; our yearning for connection is a primal human need, minimally for a cushion for survival. Today the neural echo of that need heightens our sensitivity to the difference between It and You--and makes us feel social rejection as deeply as physical pain. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| b372572 | Exploration means we disengage from a current focus to search for new possibilities, and allows flexibility, discovery, | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 359c1e2 | Los sentimientos desempenan un papel fundamental para navegar a traves de la incesante corriente de las decisiones personales que la vida nos obliga a tomar. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 52d30d5 | We're being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 2af05c1 | But amid the din and distraction of work life, poor listening has become epidemic. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| df391d9 | It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY, The Little Prince | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 9934db3 | In any interaction the more high-power person tends to focus his or her gaze on the other person less than others, and is more likely to interrupt and to monopolize the conversation--all signifying a lack of attention. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 76807d2 | Tightly focused attention gets fatigued--much like an overworked muscle--when we push to the point of cognitive exhaustion. The signs of mental fatigue, such as a drop in effectiveness and a rise in distractedness and irritability, signify that the mental effort needed to sustain focus has depleted the glucose that feeds neural energy. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| eaae2d3 | no birthday, concert, hangout session, or party can be enjoyed without taking the time to distance yourself from what you are doing" to make sure that those in your digital world know instantly how much fun you are having." | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 11ae13e | Academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. The brightest among us can founder on the shoals of unbridled passions and unruly impulses; people with high IQs can be stunningly poor pilots of their private lives. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| be119b8 | Rapport demands joint attention--mutual focus. Our need to make an effort to have such human moments has never been greater, given the ocean of distractions we all navigate daily. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| e6dd259 | The inability to resist checking email or Facebook rather than focus on the person talking to us leads to what the sociologist Erving Goffman, a masterly observer of social interaction, called an "away," a gesture that tells another person "I'm not interested" in what's going on here and now." | Daniel Goleman | ||
| c342376 | In fact, people who are extremely adept at mental tasks that demand cognitive control and a roaring working memory--like solving complex math problems--can struggle with creative insights if they have trouble switching off their fully concentrated focus.5 | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 4bd9afa | Emotional intelligence skills are synergistic with cognitive ones; top performers have both. The more complex the job, the more emotional intelligence matters--if only because a deficiency in these abilities can hinder the use of whatever technical expertise or intellect a person may have. | Daniel Goleman |