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| 77ded5b | As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity, charm, and success, and the more lasting moral values." Their creator did make that distinction, however, and so was constantly surrounding his characters with a mist of admiration and the.. | fitzgerald | Scott Donaldson | |
| b256c94 | We're all eating stars! Every day! What a marvelous annulus of accident and need. | Christopher Cokinos | ||
| 7c287fb | If you think there's a god, then there is, and if you don't, then there isn't. At least while we stumble around in the dark during our mortal life, that is. We'll find out the answer for sure when it's over, and if we don't, well, we'll never know that we didn't. | Anthony Bjorklund | ||
| c44b748 | Jimmy Buffett, Mr. Margaritaville, said that if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. | Noel Jones | ||
| 6d00440 | The parrot eyed me cautiously, like he was forming a vague memory of unhappier times, before Jimmy Buffett and ganja. "Noisy bastard," he decided." | Rick Riordan | ||
| c635eb6 | I didn't want to let on how much firing the gun had effected me, but it had certainly turned my nuts into giant epcot centers of steel. the sense of power was unfathomable; suddenly I was the mightiest thing in existence, all men bowing before me. with the squeeze of a finger I could undo all goods creations. | Ryan C. Thomas | ||
| af09a17 | Good morning, I'm Anne Ryan," she said, producing the driver's license. The receptionist stood up, nodding. She was wearing latex gloves. And before the woman formerly known as Myfanwy Thomas could say a word, the receptionist wound up and punched her in the face. She flew backward, the pain in her eyes flaring, and shrieked like a train whistle. Through the stars floating in her vision, she could see three men entering the room and shuttin.. | Daniel O'Malley | ||
| 6b358b5 | I guess some problems were too big to fix and you just hoped they would take care of themselves. | Ryan C. Thomas | ||
| 325074d | Thomas, not all that walk this world are what they appear. | Rae Z. Ryans | ||
| 50b3f28 | I did research online to see if I could find a rescue group that would take her, and instead I found Pit Bull Rescue Central (wwwpbrc.net), a clearinghouse of listings for pit bulls all across the country, all in need of homes, most with horrific histories of abuse. The Web site, completely volunteer-run, offers information on the breed, on what to do if you have found a pit bull, and on how to test a dog's temperament; it also stringently .. | Ken Foster | ||
| 8f9484e | It, one suspects, must have had much to do with the evocation of what is called the Oxford spirit--that gentlest spirit, so lingering and searching, so dear to them who as youths were brought into ken of it, so exasperating to them who were not. Yes, certainly, it is this mild, miasmal air, not less than the grey beauty and gravity of the buildings, that has helped Oxford to produce, and foster eternally, her peculiar race of artist-scholar.. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 82f31fc | Empowerment Is Something Someone Gives You. Self Leadership Is What You Do To Make It Work. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| bcbf113 | Leadership is not about power. It's not about control; it's about helping people live according to the vision. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| cffde7e | Yes. However, remember--productivity is more than just the quantity of work done. It is also the quality. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| c14c9ea | If you can't tell me what you'd like to be happening,' he said, 'you don't have a problem yet. You're just complaining. A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 97210ab | The more attention you pay to a behavior, the more it will be repeated. Accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative are the best tools for increasing productivity. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 1f88474 | Focusing on the negative often creates situations that demoralize people. When good performance is followed by a positive response, people naturally want to continue that behavior. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| abf6392 | When you judge someone, it impairs your ability to see him or her clearly, as if a filter is screening out everything about that person except what fits your assessment. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 95c9afc | Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 4e4b621 | Learning to let go, to put the team's will first, is an empowering experience that leads to the most wonderful of all experiences: being a member of a high-performing, gungho, high-five team. Remember, leadership is not all about you. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| d5aada8 | One of the things great leaders do is establish, articulate, model, and enforce core values." So" | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 55d504b | What you resist, persists. Until you deal with your feelings, you will be stuck with them. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 09c4e91 | Successful people do work hard, but they also think before they act. They are proactive, not just reactive. Most people mentally have a sign on their desk that reads, "Don't just sit there--do something!" The best advice I ever received was to revise the sign to read, "Don't just do something--sit there!" | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 09966b7 | As Lily Tomlin once said, "The problem with a rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 29c3f4b | The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel, and misrepresentation. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| e421d2e | A good life is built on strong, solid values such as integrity, love, honesty, and purposeful work. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| a79769a | The best definition of profit I've ever heard is that it is the applause you get for satisfying your customers and creating a motivating environment for your people. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 4420a2f | determination to make a difference, do worthwhile work, get good results, and, at the same time, have fun. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 2cd1626 | great rule of thumb is to never say anything behind someone's back that you wouldn't say straight to the person's face. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| aaf881b | 2. n lsthn@ bklm 'w ar 'w 'fkr shkhS m mn lmmkn 'n ykwn lh athr Dr@ `l~ hdh lshkhS f`ndm l nstTy` 'n ntdhkr khT'n m`tbryn lHdth@ `l~ 'nh GlT@ Tfyf@ 'w 'nn kn mshGwlyn jdan ldrj@ 'nn lm ntmkn mn ltfkyr fy t'thyr tSrftn `l~ hdh lshkhS fn hdh ybdw wk'nn ntjhl hdh lshkhS wl n`by' bh `l~ lTlq. fy mthl hdhh lHlt `lyn lqym blt'kyd lh `l~ 'nn lm nt`md ydhy'h w`l~ 'nn `l~ st`dd ltSHyH hdh lmwqf. `lyn 'l nftrD 'bdan 'nn n`rf m ydwr bkhld shkhS akhr. | كين-بلانشارد | Kenneth H. Blanchard | |
| b9f22eb | It's unfair to be hard on yourself the first time you attempt something new. It is also unfair to expect others to meet such an unrealistic expectation. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| a981435 | There is a lot of competition out there. If you don't take care of your customers, somebody else is ready to take your place. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 6a4ae5a | When you ask people about the best leader they ever had, one quality is always mentioned: they are good listeners. These leaders have learned to "sort by others." When someone says, "It's a beautiful day," they respond by keeping the focus on the speaker. For example, they'll respond, "It sounds like you're pretty happy today." Poor listeners "sort by self." If you express a concern you have, they will express a concern they have. Our senio.. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 795ca8e | There are different layers of honesty--the truth of what you said and the truth of what was in your heart when you spoke the words. | truth | Michael Koryta | |
| 4a3cc0e | Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio W. H. Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts," from Collected Poems Jane Austen Russell Banks, Continental Drift Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated by Alison Anderson Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader The Holy Bible Elizabeth Bishop Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives, translated by Natasha Wimmer" | Will Schwalbe | ||
| bddd531 | Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense--one has to listen and keep it in one's heart, in one's blood, until the day it will become useful. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 551a564 | the Thing has stirred in its moorings. The Thing that my Grandfather Harry and his generation of Harrys had thought was nothing but a false alarm. | Ishmael Reed | ||
| 46e7341 | Yes. You see, it's not 1 of those germs that break bleed suck gnaw or devour. It's nothing we can bring into focus or categorize; once we call it 1 thing it forms into something else. | Ishmael Reed | ||
| 7fd026b | He said he felt like the gut heart and lungs of Africa's interior. He said he felt like the Kongo: "Land of the Panther." He said he felt like "deserting his master," as the Kongo is "prone to do." He said he felt he could dance on a dime." | Ishmael Reed | ||
| dc7616f | Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life. They only live in cold thinking. Their feelings are deeply repressed while they attach themselves forlornly to the earth. | Ishmael Reed | ||
| c8f9722 | So much water. It just went on and on and on, a sight that squeezed the soul. He felt so damn small out here. And that felt good. Maybe that was strange, but it felt good. He was insignificant. The world was too big to care about his decisions. There was no weight here, no burden. | Michael Koryta | ||
| c836af1 | I AM PUSHING a rusty wheelbarrow in a town where the air smells of blood and burnt flesh. The breeze brings the faint cries of those whose last breaths are leaving their mangled bodies. I walk past them. Their arms and legs are missing; their intestines spill out through the bullet holes in their stomachs; brain matter comes out of their noses and ears. The flies are so excited and intoxicated that they fall on the pools of blood and die. T.. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 18df9af | You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 7083101 | This wasn't a place for illusions; the reality here was the genuine happiness that came about from the natural magic of standing next to someone and being consumed by the fortitude in his or her humanity. | Ishmael Beah |