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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 90bdc13 | That winter you left me snow-blind trying to find enough details that would let you know that even though some people have perfect sight, those same people could try to paint you by numbers and they still wouldn't get you right. You were Monet number two and Van Gogh number 6, a mix tape of Hendrix and Leibowitz portraits. It makes no sense to me that we were ever together. And my makeshift weather reports were the closest I ever came to te.. | shane-koyczan weather-reports | Shane Koyczan | |
| f4ca523 | By itself, one small win may seem unimportant," writes Dr. Karl Weick in a seminal paper for American Psychologist in 1984. "A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals." "Once a small win has been accomplished," Weick continues, "forces are set in motion that favor another small win." From" | Shane Snow | ||
| 3ad4f17 | To be good citizens, responsible workers and providers, and ethical businesspeople, we need a minimum level of knowledge about the way the world works, who's in it, and how things fit together. | Shane Snow | ||
| 86d4163 | A friend and I prepared a video clip once for a worship service. Our goal was to capture people's responses to the word Christian, so we took a video camera and hit the streets, from the trendy arts district to the suburbs. We asked people to say the first word that came to mind in response to each word we said: "snow," "eagles" (it's Philly), "teenagers," and finally "Christian." When people heard the word Christian, they stopped in their .. | Shane Claiborne | ||
| c88f42a | Both C.K. and Bieber are extremely gifted performers. Both climbed to the top of their industry, and in fact, both ultimately used the Internet to get big. But somehow Bieber "made it" in one-fifteenth of the time. How did he climb so much faster than the guy Rolling Stone calls the funniest man in America--and what does this have to do with Jimmy Fallon? The answer begins with a story from Homer's Odyssey. When the Greek adventurer Odysseu.. | Shane Snow | ||
| a37530c | his lips parted and a smile began but, before it could turn into something common, like a laugh or a smile...she kissed him. | Amanda V. Shane | ||
| b3c84dd | Kids there have much more sense that they're going to have to construct their own future," Wagner says. They're taught to be entrepreneurs of their own lives. Instead of standing passively on an education assembly line and being handed reams of facts and figures, they are thrown into rooms of bricks and asked to build castles." | Shane Snow | ||
| e77cb4d | Counterintuitively, however, "Informal mentoring," Underhill found, "produced a larger and more significant effect on career outcomes than formal mentoring." | Shane Snow | ||
| 6bd5e17 | Traditional paths are not just slow; they're no longer viable if we want to compete and innovate. | Shane Snow | ||
| 0cde5dc | Mentorship is the secret of many of the highest-profile achievers throughout history. | Shane Snow | ||
| 8ba02fd | You can accelerate your training if you know how to train properly, but you still don't need to be that special. I don't think I'm that special of a programmer or a businessperson or a race car driver. I just know how to train. | Shane Snow | ||
| 897ea6f | It's over for me, isn't it?" The old man glanced across the room mid-chew. "What do you mean?" "I'm not getting my body back." He shrugged. "Probably not." My head swam. It didn't matter that at some level I had suspected the truth; hearing the words spoken out loud felt like a kick in the teeth. "Why didn't you tell me before?" "You're a smart guy, Alexander, and we both know you had already figured it out. That's always the way with peopl.. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| 4ce217d | You're serious." "As serious as an accountant at an IRS audit." His face closed off, reminding her of the ruthlessness she had first noticed about him on the front steps. "You have no business opening a restaurant." "Says who?" "Says the guy who watched you try to extricate yourself from a burger suit with a knife." Her mouth fell open. "Burger suits and restaurants are two different kettles of fish." "Kettles of fish? Now there's great bus.. | terminology texas-style sayings portia-and-gabriel | Linda Francis Lee | |
| fe899f0 | Two people have to love and respect each other to make a good team, at least in marriage. They have to be committed down to their cores in order to survive the ups and downs of life. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| 16c376c | Mothers are strong enough to let their daughters find out who they really are, and daughters are stong enough to realize that mistakes or no, every mother has done the best she can ... and if she's lucky, her own daughter will one day give her the same gift of understanding. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| 8b43e18 | I still didn't know what the future held. I didn't have a map or even a plan. But I had learned that's what life was - risky, messy, no way to tie it up in neat little packages despite my desire for it to be otherwise. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| cc852ad | Sometimes there is more to a person's need for white picket fences than safety, just as sometimes there is more to a person's rebellion than the need to lash out against rules. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| fac19e5 | It's regret that kills, the if onlys that leave the mortal wounds. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| 8031d35 | The climate warmed. Wild grasses, flowers and trees took root in the land behind the huge rock. In time, their growing and dying made deep rich loam on which a magnificent forest grew. Into the forest came bear, deer, brightly colored birds, and the Pawtuxets, a tribe of the Wampanoag, The People of the Dawn. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| 7afd403 | To Squanto, as to all Native Americans, the land did not belong to the people, people belonged to the land. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| afca777 | Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| d7298c8 | Passengers drank and smoked. Both; a lot. This was a significant source of profit for Cunard. The company laid in a supply of 150 cases of Black & White Whiskey, 50 cases of Canadian Club Whiskey, and 50 of Plymouth Gin; also, 15 cases each of an eleven-year-old French red wine, a Chambertin, and an eleven-year-old French white, a Chablis, and twelve barrels of stout and ten of ale. Cunard stockpiled thirty thousand "Three Castles" cigarett.. | Erik Larson | ||
| d99a204 | Eventually they [Sarunas Marciulionis and Don Nelson] got a call from a representative of the Grateful Dead, whose members had been inspired by Lithuania's struggle for independence. Nelson and Marciulionis showed up at the address they were given in San Francisco, which was a small, nondescript garage. 'I thought we were the victim of a practical joke until we opened the door and there was a state-of-the-art recording studio' says Nelson. .. | basketball don-nelson dream-team grateful-dead jerry-garcia lithuania sarunas-marciulionis | Jack McCallum | |
| 0240d6c | Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future." -Nelson Mandela" | universal | Michael Gallegos Borresen | |
| 3e1bad7 | The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to minister to her suffering. The experience of either person can neither be denied nor adequately explained by a negative philosophy. | Michael J. Nelson | ||
| 5169893 | It usually starts innocently enough, a friend remarking to you that the co-op has a nice new crop of grapefruit. "Hmm, I don't really care for grapefruit myself," you say, entirely without malice. She seems startled, "Really?" she says. If you had a tendency to be sarcastic, you might say, "No, I deliberately misrepresent my taste in citrus to gain the upper hand in conversation." But you are not sarcastic, so you restate your dislike, a li.. | Michael J. Nelson | ||
| a9b91de | When you're designing for extremes with software, the three most important "extremes" to remember are: 1. Design for people who can't read. 2. Design for people who can't use a mouse. 3. Design for people who have such bad memories they would forget their own name if it weren't embossed on their American Express" | Joel Spolsky | ||
| 0ad92dc | In any case, even if a usability test resolves a dispute, it doesn't do it in any kind of a statistically valid way. Unless you test thousands of people from all walks of life under all kinds of conditions, something that not even Microsoft can afford to do, you are not actually getting statistically meaningful results. Remember, the real strength of usability tests is in finding truffles--finding the broken bits so you can fix them. Actual.. | Joel Spolsky | ||
| 1031f45 | See," she's saying. "I told you, Heather. You're too nice to win. Too weak. Not in good enough shape. Because size twelveis fat. Oh, I know what you're going to say. It's the size of the average American woman. But guess what? The average American woman is fat, Heather.''[...] It takes me a while to realize that the breathing isn't my own. When I'm finally able to see, I look up, and see Rachel laying at my feet, blood pouring out of an ind.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| c0d739d | Then I watched his eyebrows go up. Way up. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 5438e1b | ts very simple. In everyday life, we're given a choice. Do the right thing, do nothing, or do the wrong thing. All too often, people choose to do nothing. And that's all right and what's wrong. Sometimes it's difficult to know what's right and what's wrong. But every so often, a few people choose to go out of their way to do the right thing. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 2c06423 | Tears were one thing-unlike money...that could never run out. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 13bf44b | And I think What does it matter that it is not a linear equation if any variable is raised to a power? We're all just going to die anyway. | mia-thermopolis princess-in-the-spotlight the-princess-diaries-2 the-princess-diaries | Meg Cabot | |
| 77400a7 | Exit our Miss Mel. Exit Friend Tim. When I glanced over my shoulder, Max Friedlander had disappeared--a remarkable feat, considering that there was nowhere on that side of the hole for him to go except into the Chronicle building. But he can't have gone in there. His soul would have been ripped instantly from his body while demons sucked out his life force. | Meg Cabot | ||
| ef06682 | To: Mel Fuller From: Nadine Wilcock Subject: Go take a Midol... | Meg Cabot | ||
| 56516f5 | When I get out of this hospital, you and I are going to sit down and have a very long chat, Susannah, about proper mediation techniques. I don't know about this habit of yours of just walking up and punching the poor souls in the face. | Meg Cabot | ||
| f76210f | Sometimes, we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 4d0750e | No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time. | Meg Cabot | ||
| bc5078c | Oh my God. Oh my God, J.P. is in love with me. And we blew up the school. | romance humor dramatic-moment | Meg Cabot | |
| 95338cd | I cannot believe that Muffy just called the First Amendment fiddle-faddle. Fiddle Faddle is a delicious candy-coated popcorn snack food. It has nothing to do with the Bill of Rights. | Meg Cabot | ||
| e1ed036 | But don't you worry," Dad says, after he spends a moment digesting this information, "that if you don't have children, there'll be one one to care for you in your old age?" "No," I say. "Because I could have children, and they could turn out to hate me. The way I see it, I have friends who care about me now, so I'll probably have friends who'll care about me when I'm old, too. We'll take care of each other." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 0a3934a | Art." Dauntra nodded. "Sure. I can't believe a guy gets paid to show off his goods, and people call it art." | Meg Cabot | ||
| cce4006 | We have to face difficulties to find out what our true strengths are. How we come back from a failure is a very valuable test. | Meg Cabot | ||
| e7d3bbf | Yeah. He gets me. Well, except for the part where I'm totally fine with premarital sex and am also convinced that God, if he or she exists, is, too. "Well," | Meg Cabot |