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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 34c57f3 | The person in the song is really addressing a powerful and constant state of yearning more than he is any real lover. It's the state of this yearning that torments him, yet he also loves his torment. He needs it. Because he understands that being able to feel this yearning so exquisitely is his secret strength. | Gail Godwin | ||
| 4750e66 | But the son whips out a Bayer aspirin, the father rises to his feet, embraces the son, and Technicolor is restored to their lives. | Gail Godwin | ||
| f061c43 | When I was in seminary," Father Edward had told other guests around the table when he was purchasing his books, "my spiritual director told me not to read theology. 'Read novels,' he said, and I have." | Gail Godwin | ||
| 994bbd7 | Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, | Gail Godwin | ||
| 4153989 | Nonie often remarked that every one of us needed to get away from other people and replenish our personal reserves. | Gail Godwin | ||
| d65db57 | Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it. | growing-up | Gail Godwin | |
| 72dc01e | If you are in difficulties with a book," suggested H. G. Wells, "try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it." This was one way Gail Godwin learned to outfox her "watcher" (the inner critic who kept an eye on her as she worked): looking for times to write when she was off guard. Other tactics Godwin found helpful included writing too fast and in unexpected places and times; working when tired; writing in pur.. | Ralph Keyes | ||
| b45751a | Remorse went out of fashion around the same time that "Stop feeling guilty," and "You're too hard on yourself," and "You need to love yourself more" came into fashion." | Gail Godwin | ||
| 3c79396 | A person always has control over how she meets her adversities, and the good news is that the facing of them, one after another, year after year, builds an inner strength that nobody can take away from you. | Gail Godwin | ||
| 1ee8577 | In friendships . . . the requisits are always the same. Each provides the other with a refuge in time of trouble, with a continuum to fall back on in time of self-doubt, with an underpinning of earned trust upon which it is possible to build new achievements. | Gail Godwin | ||
| ff26f02 | The customer service agents who accepted the defaults of Internet Explorer and Safari approached their job the same way. They stayed on script in sales calls and followed standard operating procedures for handling customer complaints. They saw their job descriptions as fixed, so when they were unhappy with their work, they started missing days, and eventually just quit. The employees who took the initiative to change their browsers to Firef.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 242b795 | This chapter is about when to speak up and how to do it effectively without jeopardizing our careers and relationships. What | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 68c0899 | But there's something distinctive that happens when givers succeed: it spreads and cascades. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| cd9669a | If we want people to accept our original ideas, we need to speak up about them, then rinse and repeat. To | Adam M. Grant | ||
| f6b4092 | The mere exposure effect has been replicated many times--the more familiar a face, letter, number, sound, flavor, brand, or Chinese character becomes, the more we like it. It's | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 1b05edf | Reasoning does create a paradox: it leads both to more rule following and more rebelliousness. By | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 668b948 | And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as they bloomed until she surrendered to relaxation with a soft exclamation of surprise | Mary Balogh | ||
| a034781 | We women are impractical because we have hearts. Not that men do not, but they feel things differently. They do not feel the suffering around them, or, if they do, they know how to harden their hearts when it has nothing to do with them. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 114bc03 | said, "but the school board--" He opened his arms in a helpless sweep. "If I can help . . ." The following Wednesday the bells of the chapel did not ring, and when the old women" -- | Ursula Hegi | ||
| bc43058 | it only occurred to me much later that the summer I was fourteen I had saved a life--not the life of a stranger as I had imagined--but the life I had taken for granted and which, in the years to come, I would take for granted again. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| 7568970 | We Germans have a history of sacrificing everything for one strong leader," her father had said. "It's our fear of chaos." | Ursula Hegi | ||
| 2cd14d6 | And yet, just because a story was a certain way didn't mean it would always be like that: stories took their old shape with them and fused it with the new shape. She didn't understand yet how all the tangles of their lives would sort themselves out in her story, but she supposed it would be like raking: not every bit of earth would be untangled at once. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| 06a76d6 | With the stories of people she'd known since her childhood it was like that: one incident in their lives might come to an ending, but others would lead into new veins, and what was fascinating was to look at the whole of it and discern a pattern, a way of being, that had shaped those passages. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| 357cf58 | These are things," Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, "that the church calls sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important thing--" He paused. "--is to be kind." | Ursula Hegi | ||
| 6bf1325 | Because of the people in history, Trudi felt a far stronger link than ever before to the people in her town, and from all this grew new stories, which she told to Eva and her father, and to Frau Abramowitz who listened to every word and sighed, "Trudi, you and your splendid imagination." | Ursula Hegi | ||
| bb9348f | Trudi's gift lay in knowing. Knowing the words that named the thoughts inside people's minds, the words that masked the fears and secrets inside their hearts. To force their secrets to the surface like water farts and let them rip through the silence. They called her a snoop, a meddler. But even though she was more inconvenient to them than ever before, they kept coming back--to borrow books, they liked to believe--yet, what they really cam.. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| bc8ee02 | The risk her stories posed to others--and to herself--was more subtle. When she was younger, she had used secrets as if they were currency, but she'd found out how secrets could use her instead by becoming stronger than she. It happened whenever she couldn't stay away from a secret--drawn to it the way Georg Weiler was drawn to the bottle--though she sensed it would be better for her not to know. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| d4bfcfa | Technology displaces workers in the short run but does not lead to mass unemployment in the long run. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| c115a49 | Imagine you are Emma Faye Stewart, a thirty-year-old, single African American mother of two who was arrested as part of a drug sweep in Hearne, Texas.1 All but one of the people arrested were African American. You are innocent. After a week in jail, you have no one to care for your two small children and are eager to get home. Your court-appointed attorney urges you to plead guilty to a drug distribution charge, saying the prosecutor has of.. | Michelle Alexander | ||
| 3e710d6 | The product of careful continuity is love....Trust, intimacy, intense use, and time are what made these buildings work so well. | Stewart Brand | ||
| 329370e | i began to see that i had commodified myself.... i created my interior thoughts as a means of production for the corporation that owned the board i was posting to, and that commodity was being sold to other commodity/consumer entities as entertainment. | Fred Turner | ||
| 1efa6bb | Imagine a world in which time seems to vanish and space becomes completely malleable. Where the gap between need or desire and fulfillment collapses to zero. | Stewart Brand | ||
| 1128688 | More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now. | Stewart Brand | ||
| b6beaf3 | It seems there is an ideal degree of aging which is admired. Things should not be new, but neither should they be rotten with age (except in New Orleans, which fosters a cult of decay). | Stewart Brand | ||
| 305a19d | We are convinced by things that show internal complexity, that show the traces of an interesting evolution. Those signs tell us that we might be rewarded if we accord it our trust. An important aspect of design is the degree to which the object involves you in its own completion. Some work invites you into itself by not offering a finished, glossy, one-reading-only surface. This is what makes old buildings interesting to me. I think that hu.. | Stewart Brand | ||
| 92e803c | Art must be inherently radical, but buildings are inherently conservative. Art must experiment to do its job. Most experiments fail. Art costs extra. How much extra are you willing to pay to live in a failed experiment? Art flouts convention. Convention became conventional because it works. Aspiring to art means aspiring to a building that almost certainly cannot work, because the old good solutions are thrown away. The roof has a dramatic .. | Stewart Brand | ||
| 83eb62a | What does it take to build something so that it's really easy to make comfortable little modifications in a way that once you've made them, they feel integral with the nature and structure of what is already there? You want to be able to mess around with it and progressively change it to bring it into an adapted state with yourself, your family, the climate, whatever. This kind of adaptation is a continuous process of gradually taking care. | Stewart Brand | ||
| e3a53c6 | I'm a lifelong environmentalist. My voice piped at age ten: "I give my pledge as an American to save and faithfully to defend from waste the natural resources of my country--its air, soil, and minerals, its forests, waters, and wildlife." I got infected by that Conservation Pledge through the magazine Outdoor Life and proceeded to paste it on everything and everyone around me. Since the concept of pledge has long been rendered meaningless b.. | Stewart Brand | ||
| 5df9459 | Whole Earth Discipline carries on something that began in 1968, when I founded the Whole Earth Catalog. I stayed with the Catalog as editor and publisher until 1984, adding a magazine called CoEvolution Quarterly along the way. The Whole Earth publications were compendia of environmentalist tools and skills (along with much else) and explicitly purveyed a biological way of understanding. Peter Warshall wrote and reviewed about watersheds, s.. | Stewart Brand | ||
| e1938fd | for the next century could raise the world's temperature some 4degC (7.2degF), bringing serious coastal flooding and other damage." The Conservation Foundation urged renewed funding for Keeling's CO 2 project and pressed the National Academy of Sciences to pay attention to the subject. From then on, awareness of climate change ascended right along with the Keeling Curve. In 1971 Barry Commoner's environmentalist bestseller, The Closing Circ.. | Stewart Brand | ||
| 8096f1d | At present, the best low-carbon source is nuclear. | Stewart Brand | ||
| a616e83 | Science has long informed the environmental movement. Now it must take the lead, because we are forced to enter an era of large-scale ecosystem engineering, and we have to know what the hell we're doing. That sermon gets a chapter. Beavers are benevolent ecosystem engineers; so are soil-enriching earthworms; so were American Indians, who terraformed a continent; so are all of us who work on restoring natural infrastructure. A chapter on tha.. | Stewart Brand | ||
| 3b642cd | Unfortunately for the atmosphere, environmentalists helped stop carbon-free nuclear power cold in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States and Europe. (Except for France, which fortunately responded to the '73 oil crisis by building a power grid that was quickly 80 percent nuclear.) | Stewart Brand | ||
| 827ec34 | Eternity is the opposite of a long time. | Stewart Brand |