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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b5f6949 | Por estudios realizados sobre otras especies en estado de superpoblacion experimental, sabemos que llega un momento en el que el aumento de densidad de poblacion alcanza un punto extremo en el que se destruye toda la estructura social. | extincion malthus poblacion superpoblacion | Desmond Morris | |
| d3521a9 | As a species we are a predominantly intelligent and exploratory animal, and beliefs harnessed to this fact will be the most beneficial for us. A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phenomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the 're.. | belief immortality literature religion science | Desmond Morris | |
| a15c4cf | Here is what you do. You ease yourself into a tub of water, you ease yourself down. You lie back and wait for the ripples to smooth away. Then you take a deep breath, and slide your head under, and listen for the playfulness of your heart. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 651afbd | For peace of mind I will lie about any thing at any time. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 87e21c8 | Ho esagerato ancora prima di cominciare, perche e vero: niente e mai grave quanto potrebbe essere. | esagerare gravità verità | Amy Hempel | |
| c35ca61 | E penso a quel detto che ripetono sempre tutti: "la vita e dura... e poi muori". A dire il vero, non e affatto cosi. Questo lo dicono loro. La vita e dura: su questo hanno ragione. Ma quei giorni che dovrebbero essere la parte peggiore? Su questo si sbagliano. E' la tua vita, il resto della tua vita, la parte peggiore." | morte pensare sbagliare vita | Amy Hempel | |
| e00b89f | Mi immaginavo noi due che cuocevamo le mele per Natale, quegli stupidi quadretti romantici alla Currier e Ives... pensavo per tutto il tempo: A volte quello che abbiamo passa per amore, quando invece avrei dovuto pensare: L'amore passa. | coppia immaginare natale quadro romantico tempo | Amy Hempel | |
| bd84379 | He turned off the freeway onto a wide commercial drive of franchised food and failing business. The | Amy Hempel | ||
| ee9100b | while the world worlds up at us." I" | Amy Hempel | ||
| a5701d7 | Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp" | Gabrielle Zevin | ||
| fe9f34f | We keep wanting people to be different. | Amy Hempel | ||
| bbf1cd1 | Marriageability" was the original title of "The Harvest." | storytelling | Amy Hempel | |
| 5f1ee64 | I would have written this next part into the story if anybody would have believed it. But who would have? I was there and I didn't believe it. | storytelling | Amy Hempel | |
| bac88f5 | This is a good movie,' she said when snipers felled them both. I missed her already. | Amy Hempel | ||
| e152dec | Maya, If you're stuck, reading helps: "The Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway. We should have them all downstairs. Just ask if you can't find anything, though you know where every.. | Gabrielle Zevin | ||
| 379a64e | It is just possible I will say I stayed the night. And who is there that can say that I did not? | Amy Hempel | ||
| bf13d34 | If you're stuck, reading helps: "The Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway." | Gabrielle Zevin | ||
| 37c1203 | he married the most beautiful woman he ever saw and learned the irrelevance of beauty. | Amy Hempel | ||
| fbec155 | Alcuni di noi soffrono in silenzio di un male rumoroso. E questo e quanto ho da dire sulla paura. | male rumore silenzio | Amy Hempel | |
| 6d55728 | In a probabilistic environment, you are better served by focusing on the process by which you make a decision than on the outcome | Michael J. Mauboussin | ||
| 8010c73 | To overcome inertia, Peter Drucker, the legendary consultant, suggested asking the seemingly naive question, "If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we now know, go into it?"26" | Michael J. Mauboussin | ||
| 9a1c7a2 | Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters. | Michael J. Mauboussin | ||
| 4f2371c | However, once you realize the answer to most questions is, "It depends," you are ready to embark on the quest to figure out what it depends on." | Michael J. Mauboussin | ||
| 8321700 | Andrei Shleifer writes in his excellent book Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance: | Michael J. Mauboussin | ||
| 0293e1e | While most of us are comfortable acknowledging that luck plays a role in what we do, we have difficulty assessing its role after the fact. Once something has occurred and we can put together a story to explain it, it starts to seem like the outcome was predestined. Statistics don't appeal to our need to understand cause and effect, which is why they are so frequently ignored or misinterpreted. Stories, on the other hand, are a rich means to.. | probability statistics | Michael J. Mauboussin | |
| 5475557 | America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France, where the Government isn't privatized, they still have to pay tax and do whatever the Government says, which would really suck. In USA countries, we respect individual rights and let people do whatever they want. | Max Barry | ||
| ee6514a | I have nothing and no one but you, and you're useless. That's not a personal commentary. It's a statement of fact. | Max Barry | ||
| 4ceb03b | Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which was the order in which people optimally satisfied different types of desires (food-safety-love-status-enlightenment). | Max Barry | ||
| 09b7442 | It was turning into a sly, anti-free market statement, and irony irritated him. There was no place for irony in marketing: it made people want to look for deeper meaning. There was no place in marketing for that, either. | Max Barry | ||
| 15c3211 | I had to train myself to accept that not everybody works as hard as me. That what I consider unacceptably sloppy is actually an okay result, and it's counterproductive to get into a whole thing where someone starts crying and threatening to quit. And you know what? Learning that not only helped me grow as a manager. It helped me grow as a person. | Max Barry | ||
| 763aaf2 | These tests, though, were making her feel like a moron. | Max Barry | ||
| 0f26cf6 | He'd never seen it in person before (the main quarry); it was larger than he'd expected. When he'd first taken an interest, some decades before, following hints of something ancient and significant buried there, he could still make out remnants of the hill that had loaned the town it's name. Now that was gone - not just erased but inverted, to become a great pit. He found tho notable for the demonstration of force it represented. Civilizati.. | Max Barry | ||
| 5fde55a | somewhere along the line, this freedom stuff got way out of control. | Max Barry | ||
| 65875cf | irony irritated him. There was no place for irony in marketing: it made people want to look for deeper meaning. There was no place in marketing for that, either. | Max Barry | ||
| 3596fcf | He had no intention of removing the tumor. It was the perfect solution to his dilemma: how to feed his body's desire for intimacy. He was delusional, of course. There was no higher presence filling him with love, connecting him to all things. It only felt that way. But that was fine. That was ideal. He would not have trusted a God outside his head. | Max Barry | ||
| 415522a | A woman appeared and began to generate tea and coffee | Max Barry | ||
| 66fda5f | Verstehst du, im Grunde sind doch die Mitarbeiter das Problem. Du zahlst, wenn du sie einstellst, du zahlst, wenn du sie rausschmeisst, und dazwischen muss du sie auch noch bezahlen. | beruf berufsleben firma job satire | Max Barry | |
| 2eaa643 | He went to rub his eyes and missed. | Max Barry | ||
| 314bc82 | Warum wollen sie unbedingt, dass ich den Auftrag storniere?' Der Mann klingt auf einmal misstrauisch. 'Seid ihr uberbucht?' 'Ich will Ihnen nur helfen. Wirklich, unsere Kurse sind grottenschlecht. Es ist immer die gleiche Teamwork-Botschaft, nur unter verschiedenen Namen verpackt.' 'Ich hab nichts mit Teamwork bestellt. >Leitung von C++-Programmierern im Rahmen terminsensibler Projekte< - das wollte ich.' 'Das ist der Teamwork-Kurs. Und all.. | berufsleben satire | Max Barry | |
| a746491 | I don't know how anyone can appreciate devotion that slavish. It's not objective. I have a similar issue with religion. | Max Barry | ||
| 967a043 | Du weisst doch noch, die Leute beschweren sich immer beim Management, dass ihre Work-Life-Balance nicht mehr stimmt. Also, am nachsten Montag haben sie eine Personalversammlung zu diesem Thema angesetzt. Um acht Uhr fruh. | berufsleben psychologie satire | Max Barry | |
| 2d8c58f | Companies claimed to be highly responsive, Jennifer thought, but you only had to chase a screaming man through their offices to realize it wasn't true. | Max Barry | ||
| 9824e8a | In my city we spent $1.6 billion on a new ticketing system for the trains. We replaced paper tickets with smartcards and now they can tell where people get on and off. So, question: how is that worth $1.6 billion? People say it's the government being incompetent, and ok. But this is happening all over. All the transit networks are getting smartcards, the grocery stores are taking your name, the airports are getting face recognition cameras... | Max Barry | ||
| 67084e7 | Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of PowerPoint slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies. | Max Barry |