Browsing Quotes, page 39
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Managing energy, not time, is the key to high performance.
Speaker: Jim LoehrSource: the Power of Full EngagementPosted: 20 Aug 2009 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Speaker: William FaulknerPosted: 20 Aug 2009 at 7:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
Speaker: MachiavelliSource: The PrincePosted: 18 Aug 2009 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess. Murderers don’t believe that they’re to blame for what they do. Thieves, they think they deserve the money they take. Dictators, they believe they have the right – for the safety of their people and the good of the nation – to do whatever they wish.
Speaker: DenthSource: WarbreakerPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Unfortunately, Parlin,” Vivenna said, “people aren’t like animals.”
“I am aware of that,” Parlin said. “Animals make sense.”Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: WarbreakerPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and – if you’re not careful – those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.
Speaker: LightsongSource: WarbreakerPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I never make fun of ladies… Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
Speaker: LightsongSource: WarbreakerPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Above me, wind does its best
to blow leaves off
the aspen tree a month too soon.
No use wind. All you succeed
in doing is making music, the noise
of failure growing beautiful.Speaker: Bill HolmSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A critic is someone who comes onto the battlefield after the battle is over and shoots the wounded.
Speaker: UnknownSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost.
Speaker: Henry JamesSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Yet another piece of the solution dropped into place when my friend Judy said that the problem was trying to stop the jealousy and competitiveness, and that the main thing was not to let it fuel my self-loathing. She said it was nuts for me to try to be happy for this other writer. I cannot tell you how much this helped. I was raised in a culture that promotes this competitiveness, this insatiability, this fantasy of needing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and then, in the next breath, shames you for any feelings of longing or envy of fear that it will always be someone else’s turn. I was only doing what I had been groomed to do.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Freedom fighters don’t always win, but they are always right.
Speaker: Molly IvinsSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A moral position is not a slogan, or wishful thinking. It doesn’t come from outside or above. It begins inside the heart… and grows from there.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God’s joy moves from unmarked box to unmarked box,
from cell to cell. As rainwater, down into flowerbed.
As roses, up from ground.
Now it looks like a plate of rice and fish,
now a cliff covered with vines,
now a horse being saddled.
It hides within these,
till one day it cracks them open.Speaker: RumiSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
Speaker: Annie LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice. We can sit all night with our friend while he talks about the end of his marriage, and what we finally get is a collection of stories about passion, tenderness, misunderstanding, sorrow, money; those hours and days and moments when he was absolutely married, whether he and his wife were screaming at each other, or sulking around the house, or making love. While his marriage was dying, he was also working; spending evenings with friends, rearing children; but those are other stories. Which is why, days after hearing a painful story by a friend, we see him and say: How are you? We know that by now he may have another story to tell, or he may be in the middle of one, and we hope it is joyful.
Speaker: Andre DubusSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We who are
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting,
as a group,
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and
torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want
nor cutting you adrift.
Your analyst is
in on it,
plus your boyfriend
and your ex-husband;
and we have pledged
to disappoint you
as long as you need us.
In announcing our
association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves.
But since our Thursday nights
have brought us
to a community
of purpose
rare in itself
with you as
the natural center,
we feel hopeful you
will continue to make unreasonable
demands for affection
if not as a consequence
of your disastrous personality
then for the good of the collective.Speaker: Phillip LopateSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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