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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c5142f | When we face rejection, it can be a poignant time to tap into our desire, motivation, drive, and passion to pursue what we most want. * Why do I want this? * Why does it matter to me? * Am I willing to do whatever it takes to get there? | Aziz Gazipura | ||
| 29fa265 | The same holds true for social anxiety--which we can also call social phobia, or social fear. In this case, you're afraid that others will judge, ridicule, dislike, or reject you. As you work your way up your fear hierarchy, you will expose yourself to greater levels of judgment and rejection. It's important to realize that the purpose of completing these activities is not to succeed without any negative responses or rejections, but to actu.. | Aziz Gazipura | ||
| 48df7e4 | The ultimate point is to see that aside from what happens in our own minds, the actual harm or danger of rejection is often very minor. | Aziz Gazipura | ||
| 5d20705 | A friend and teacher of mine, Dr. Matthew May, once told me that the way to get over rejection is to take many "rejection inoculations." Much like an inoculation, if you take regular, small doses of rejection over time, it does not make you sick when you experience it." | Aziz Gazipura | ||
| 9140682 | The problem with assuming disapproval is that we tend to perceive, and even actively create, what we expect to happen in our lives. If you are certain that someone is not going to like you, then when you speak with him, you will be paying closer attention to his subtle gestures and mannerisms. What did that sigh mean? Why did he look away | Aziz Gazipura | ||
| 2e14be1 | Instead of assuming disapproval, dislike and rejection, you can assume approval, friendliness, and engagement. This technique requires asking yourself a question before you engage in a social interaction: "How would I act if I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the people here loved me and found me delightful?" | Aziz Gazipura | ||
| d836d93 | Being nice does not come out of goodness or high morals. It comes out of a fear of displeasing others and receiving their disapproval. It's driven by fear, not virtue. | Aziz Gazipura | ||
| c0329ce | Several decades as a grasping entrepreneur without a satisfying success story doesn't smooth the hustle in hustler. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 5d4f999 | Bob and Rebekah Mercer, who had set themselves up as almost professional fools. | Michael Wolff | ||
| d05c3f0 | I believe education is a powerful weapon that we can use to conquer climate change. | Adenike Oladosu | ||
| bfd0960 | Self depreciation is not humility. | Adesuwa Etomi | ||
| bcbf582 | I was in Russia years ago with the Ms. Universe contest--did very very well--I tell everyone be careful, because you don't want to see yourself on television--cameras all over the place. And again, not just Russia, all over. So would anyone really believe that story? I'm also very much of a germaphobe, by the way. Believe me. | Michael Wolff | ||
| bac53d4 | No very strict line can be drawn between Animists and low-class Hindus. | Adivasi | ||
| 88b1ceb | Every stratum of Indian society is more or less saturated with Animistic conceptions.... | Adivasi | ||
| 47493ca | had an idea--too sentimental to speak aloud and he knew none of his divorced friends would ever own up to it--that something must linger, a half-life of marriage, some sense memory of love even if obviously not the thing itself. He thought these people must mean something to one another, even if they didn't like one another anymore. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| d2e78de | I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, there's a mortgage, kids, whatever, they're trapped. Dan's like that. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| abc92fd | Inogda luchshe vse ostavit' kak est'. Vremia - ne prialka. Vremia - priazha. | time time-travel | Ben Elton | |
| f5947b9 | ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When | Ben Elton | ||
| e2fb108 | She wondered if perhaps it was something to do with marking their territory. Like dripping on the floor. | Ben Elton | ||
| 06833f3 | Scarcely a year after Hitler had been handed power, something of what he had always claimed about the Jews had actually come to pass. He said they were different. And they had become different. He had accused them of being furtive and sneaky. And they had become furtive and sneaky. Covering up. Lying low. Watching the door. Hiding away. Survival rats. Constantly nervous, trying to blend in, avoiding people's | Ben Elton | ||
| 260fdb6 | Dinner? You want to eat with me?' 'That's right, a Jew and queer, eh? The SS would love that, wouldn't they? Perhaps we can plot an assassination attempt. | Ben Elton | ||
| 0f415c1 | Professor Sengupta had the self-satisfied habit common to many academics of pretending an intellectual equality with his audience in order to happily demonstrate his own superiority. | Ben Elton | ||
| d0e9ace | I don't want to wait. I want to learn. I only have the rest of my life left and I need to make a start. | Ben Elton | ||
| ff81eb1 | Kaiser's memorial church, along the Kantstrasse, where mobs of youths were starting | Ben Elton | ||
| 2ebf435 | Tears began to fall on the notes Frieda | Ben Elton | ||
| dfa667e | gothic nightmares. | Ben Elton | ||
| 3002900 | The massive machine bore down on them. Nearly fourteen feet long and six wide, it seemed to completely fill the bridge. Almost a ton and a half of wood, glass, rubber, brass and steel, a monster, roaring and trumpeting as it approached its kill, the great shining black fender arches framing its huge goggling eyes. The thrusting tusks of its sprung-leaf suspension threatened to skewer any soft flesh and young bone that lay in its path. Black.. | Ben Elton | ||
| b84653c | Why do you still care about those people, Frieda?' he asked. 'Do they care about you?' 'Wolf, I'm a doctor. I do not require my commitment to be reciprocal. | Ben Elton | ||
| 38cf9c5 | In my experience, if you look people in the eye they usually mind their own business | Ben Elton | ||
| 465c8aa | By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. --William Shakespeare | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 3132fe7 | Look for me by moonlight; Watch for me by moonlight; I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way! --Alfred Noyes | M.C. Beaton | ||
| c99c60f | The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. | M.C. Beaton | ||
| cbc6263 | The cruellest lies are often told in silence. --Robert Louis Stevenson | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 5061eae | The arrest of Fergus Braid struck the village like a bombshell. Lesley, opening the newspaper the next day, found a photograph of him on the front page and a different story on the inside. highland bobby attacked by armed poachers screamed the headline. There was a photograph of Priscilla | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 74d78ee | Though the day of my destiny's over, And the star of my fate has declined. --Lord Byron | M.C. Beaton | ||
| d927389 | Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by. --Philips Brooks | M.C. Beaton | ||
| c7c453d | O fat white woman whom nobody loves --Frances Crofts Cornford | M.C. Beaton | ||
| ab9a528 | To see oneself as one really is--if one is ever unlucky enough to have that experience--is quite shattering. The veil of illusions and little vanities is rudely ripped aside. | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 531275f | Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world --Shakespeare | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 1208aeb | A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. --Oscar Wilde | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 4c3554d | Only a fool would cry for someone who didn't really want them. | M.C. Beaton | ||
| ee9047d | Not wi' news like this. Brace yourself, Bridget, as the Irishman said to his missus by way of foreplay. | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 568a733 | Did I say that?" he asked, and then added in so low a voice that Alice could not hear what he was saying, "If I said that then I am a very great fool indeed." | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 0ba8d5c | Keep your place and silent be, Game can hear and game can see. --Mark Beaufoy | M.C. Beaton |