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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f57f092 | And love?" she asked him. "What is love?" He smiled faintly. "Data of the heart." -- | C.S. Friedman | ||
| a51e956 | We are such cold creatures, all of us. Power robs us of our humanity. It's an ancient formula, hard-wired into our brain cells, and any attempt to circumvent it is an exercise in futility. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 7c02622 | Those who support the concept of a direct interface network don't take into account the price they would have to pay for it, in privacy and safety and a thousand other areas of concern. Do you really want a machine to know where you are every minute of the day? Do you really trust the people who design these things, and program them, enough to let their work directly into your head? Don't you realize that every time you let this creature co.. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 00c6766 | At any given time there were more than a billion transmissions buzzing through that darkness, chronicling everything from a grandchild's first words to the kind of secrets that could unseat governments. Jewels in the darkness. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| c10fd73 | The iru only seemed more alien than most to him because he was nantana, and all the signals of tone and movement which he relied upon for social intercourse were absent in such a man. Or distorted. Or exaggerated. You couldn't even try to read such a man beyond the surface, you just took his words at face value and tried not to look any deeper. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 726bc16 | The manner in which a man lies can sometimes reveal more of his nature than the truth. C. J. AMBERLEIGH, The Art of Inquisition | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 2abc517 | Was there ever a generation that didn't enjoy shocking its elders in public? Was there ever a world where adults didn't shake their heads in frustration, annoyed by the antics of the young, but unable to stop them? | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 02abf72 | Advertising: the ultimate predator. He longed for the simplicity of the Gueran network, which simply did what it was supposed to and no more. When had these people lost touch with the fact that the purpose of a network was to facilitate communication, not impede it? | C.S. Friedman | ||
| b337f4b | All data leaves a trail. The search for data leaves a trail. The erasure of data leaves a trail. The absence of data, under the right circumstances, can leave the clearest trail of all. DR. KIO MASADA; "The Enemy Among Us" | C.S. Friedman | ||
| da7815c | Each new technology will bring with it new forms of crime, demanding innovative security. That is the dynamic which drives our modern progress: not dreams, not ideals, but the simple desire on the part of criminals to take what is not theirs by law, and the determination of others to keep them from doing so. DR. AMY LAN, Brave New Battles | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 7155e62 | Why remember? Because remembering honors. Remembering heals. Remembering forgives. Remembering creates appreciation and gratitude -- two of the most wondrous salves for your sorrows. | Linda Anderson | ||
| 6d5e628 | What significant details do you remember about how you met your special animal? Why do you think this animal came into your life at the time he or she did? | Linda Anderson | ||
| 120b4f0 | You came into my life in a way that unmistakably told me to bring you home. But I think we chose each other. This was one of the best decisions I ever made. | Linda Anderson | ||
| 84e1f84 | It's like that moment when, often early in the morning, perhaps in a strange house, you pass before a mirror you hadn't known would be there. You see a glimpse of someone reflected in that mirror, and a moment passes before you recognize that that person is yourself. Literature exists in moments like that. | Linda Anderson | ||
| c5ad0b8 | Her father sighed. Rachel knew then that he'd fold. He'd been easy on her and Jonathan since they'd come back home. After her mother disappeared, leaving Rachel and Jonathan to fend for themselves. "Come here," said" | Keith Nixon | ||
| 297e52c | The derision was obvious in his voice, it cut through her. Tears in her eyes, she turned and ran out the door, pulling it closed behind her, shoes still in her hands. | Keith Nixon | ||
| db9ab02 | value the perspectives and interests of others, givers are more inclined toward asking questions than offering answers, talking tentatively than boldly, admitting their weaknesses than displaying their strengths, and seeking advice than imposing their views on others. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 7071b57 | When the average candidate was clumsy, audiences liked him even less. But when the expert was clumsy, audiences liked him even more. Psychologists call this the pratfall effect. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 0465318 | Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it. | Bel Kaufman | ||
| c1bdb2d | grew a whole bunch of blisters of their own. I wondered what you called a whole bunch of blisters. I was sorry about lots of things. Most of all I was sorry that I hadn't noticed what had been happening to Ross, that I hadn't known. But that was a lie. Of course we'd known. We caused some of it. But ignored it--buried our heads in the sand. I wished so hard that he'd talked to me. Why hadn't he talked to me? I could have helped--surely I co.. | Keith Gray | ||
| 128a688 | Remember that it is I who have raised you from nothing, and it is I who at any time can lower you to where you were. | Carolyn Meyer | ||
| 56f5c27 | Over it I shall wear my crimson velvet mande trimmed in | Carolyn Meyer | ||
| 6701b90 | fine enough, but getting there is no pleasure." She stood with her hands" | Carolyn Meyer | ||
| f49f8ad | My own words continued to echo in my head: . I felt as though I had somehow crossed a vast ocean, never to return. | never-marry ocean | Carolyn Meyer | |
| d33e198 | Meyer summarizes his code of honor as "(1) Show up. (2) Work hard. (3) Be kind. (4) Take the high road." As he contributed in ways that revealed his skills without spawning jealousy, colleagues began to admire and trust his comedic genius. "People started to see him as somebody who wasn't just motivated personally," Tim Long explains. "You don't think of him as a competitor. He's someone you can think of on a higher plane, and can trust cre.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 325df6c | The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle writes that "From a scientific perspective, it was as if the researchers had traced the lineage of the world's most beautiful swans back to a scruffy flock of barnyard chickens." | Adam M. Grant | ||
| c1f37ba | Malcolm Gladwell showed us in Outliers, research led by psychologist Anders Ericsson reveals that attaining expertise in a domain typically requires ten thousand hours of deliberate practice. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 06bd1e9 | what motivates people to practice at such length in the first place? This is where givers often enter the picture. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 77c0826 | A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect. | Bel Kaufman | ||
| 4350671 | Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams" | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 732ab65 | One of the best things about developing that credibility was if I wanted to try something that was fairly strange, people would be willing to at least give it a shot at the table read," Meyer reflects. "They ended up not rewriting my stuff as much as they had early on, because they knew I had a decent track record. I think people saw that my heart was in the right place--my intentions were good. That goes a long way." | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 4b62266 | By giving away credit, Meyer compromised his visibility. "For a long time, George's towering contribution to what some see as the most important TV show of the period was not as well known as it should have been," Long recalls. "He was generating a tremendous amount of material, and not really getting credit." | Adam M. Grant | ||
| cbe8864 | We were in the audience, your closest colleagues and devoted associates, who worked hard and faithfully for the same goal that you desired," Youngner began. "Do you remember whom you mentioned and whom you left out? Do you realize how devastated we were at that moment and ever afterward when you persisted in making your coworkers invisible?" | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 712b6a0 | responsibility bias is a major source of failed collaborations. Professional relationships disintegrate when entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, and executives feel that their partners are not giving them the credit they deserve, or doing their fair share. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 64e59a8 | responsibility bias occurs because we have more information about our own contributions than others'. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 7dc4198 | Research by Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson shows that in the type of psychologically safe environment that Meyer helped create, people learn and innovate more.* And it's givers who often create such an environment: in one study, engineers who shared ideas without expecting anything in return were more likely to play a major role in innovation, as they made it safe to exchange information | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 72484e0 | givers and takers differ in their attitudes and actions toward other people. If you're a taker, you help others strategically, when the benefits to you outweigh the personal costs. If you're a giver, you might use a different cost-benefit analysis: you help whenever the benefits to others exceed the personal costs. Alternatively, you might not think about the personal costs at all, helping others without expecting anything in return. If you.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| c44daad | You gotta kiss a lot of frogs," he often told his team, "before you find a prince." In fact, frog kissing was one of his mantras: he encouraged his engineers to try out many variations to increase their chances of stumbling on the right one. But" -- | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 579d3c7 | When takers win, there's usually someone else who loses. Research shows that people tend to envy successful takers and look for ways to knock them down a notch. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 426f0f9 | If you're gonna make connections which are innovative," Steve Jobs said back in 1982, "you have to not have the same bag of experience as everyone else does." Working" | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 60b6a79 | 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. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 9bdb82d | No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader," he was fond of saying." | Adam M. Grant | ||
| c5dff89 | Instead of courage' management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering 'a level of fury with the status quo such that one cannot not act. | fury motivation status-quo | Adam M. Grant | |
| ccc36d5 | The people who had been recognized for making original contributions shared many more stories that started negatively but surged upward: they struggled early and triumphed later. Despite being confronted with more negative events, they reported greater satisfaction with their lives and a stronger sense of purpose. | hope improvement patience struggle | Adam M. Grant |