An engine, always running, even when the plane had come to a halt.
more"Хотите проверить [насколько важен зрительный контакт]? Скажите близкому человеку банальную фразу: "Я тебя люблю" три раза и сравните реакцию. Первый раз - глядя ему в глаза. Второй - не глядя в глаза. Третий - глядя в глаза, но не ему".
Радислав Гандапас
"Человек, как вы знаете, забывает примерно 90% того, что он слышит, 60% того, что он видит, и лишь 10% того, что делает. Посудите сами, что вы запомните лучше: рассказ о том, как кому-то дали по морде, ситуацию, когда вы были свидетелем, как кому-то дали по морде, или ситуацию, когда вам самому дали по морде?"
Радислава Гандапас
Если те, кто меня критикует, увидели бы, как я шагаю по волнам Темзы, они сказали бы: это только потому, что она не умеет плавать.
Маргарет Тетчер
It's the same with intelligence: if you have it, you have it. If you are capable and talented –- or smart -– you don't have to talk about it. It will be apparent. It's always apparent.
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”
— Emmet Fox
“Some say good things come to those who wait. Truth is, good things come to those who work; who work later, who work harder. They’re willing to go further than anyone else to get them. If you’re waiting for good things to come to you… you’ll be waiting for a pretty long time.”
— Dr. Dre
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavour, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
— John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.”
— Steve Jobs
“Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.”
- Marlene Dietrich
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”
— Eddie Rickenbacker
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you. Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view’.
Neil Gaiman
“My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
— Pablo Picaso
“It’s easier to go downhill than up, but the view is best from the top.”
— Arnold Bennett
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
— Roald Dahl
“People always say, “Be humble, be humble, be humble.” When’s the last time somebody told you, “Be great, be amazing, be awesome?” Be awesome. BE AWESOME.”
— Kanye West
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde
“When I look around at the real world, it’s a world full of greys. Even the greatest heroes have weaknesses and even the blackest villains are capable of acts of compassion and humanity. People are complicated and I want my characters to be complicated too.”
— George R.R. Martin
“One day, you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family”
— Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
“You write. That’s the hard bit that nobody sees. You write on the good days and you write on the lousy days. Like a shark, you have to keep moving forward or you die. Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.”
— Neil Gaiman
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”
— Neil Gaiman
“You must write every single day of your life. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
— Ray Bradbury
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.”
— Neil Gaiman
I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved them, then tell me why they loved you. Tell me about a day in your life you didn’t think you’d live through. Tell me what the word “home” means to you and tell me in a way that I’ll know your mothers name just by the way you describe your bed room when you were 8. See, I wanna know the first time you felt the weight of hate and if that day still trembles beneath your bones. Do you prefer to play in puddles of rain or bounce in the bellies of snow? And if you were to build a snowman, would you rip two branches from a tree to build your snowman arms? Or would you leave the snowman armless for the sake of being harmless to the tree? And if you would, would you notice how that tree weeps for you because your snowman has no arms to hug you every time you kiss him on the cheek? Do you kiss your friends on the cheek? Do you sleep beside them when they’re sad, even if it makes your lover mad? Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? See, I wanna know what you think of your first name. And if you often lie awake at night and imagine your mothers joy when she spoke it for the very first time. I want you tell me all the ways you’ve been unkind. Tell me all the ways you’ve been cruel.”
— excerpt from Asking Too Much, Andrea Gibson
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.‘ To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.”
“He had no choice, he had told her, and then he left, choosing.”
— A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
more"Хотите проверить [насколько важен зрительный контакт]? Скажите близкому человеку банальную фразу: "Я тебя люблю" три раза и сравните реакцию. Первый раз - глядя ему в глаза. Второй - не глядя в глаза. Третий - глядя в глаза, но не ему".
Радислав Гандапас
"Человек, как вы знаете, забывает примерно 90% того, что он слышит, 60% того, что он видит, и лишь 10% того, что делает. Посудите сами, что вы запомните лучше: рассказ о том, как кому-то дали по морде, ситуацию, когда вы были свидетелем, как кому-то дали по морде, или ситуацию, когда вам самому дали по морде?"
Радислава Гандапас
Если те, кто меня критикует, увидели бы, как я шагаю по волнам Темзы, они сказали бы: это только потому, что она не умеет плавать.
Маргарет Тетчер
It's the same with intelligence: if you have it, you have it. If you are capable and talented –- or smart -– you don't have to talk about it. It will be apparent. It's always apparent.
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”
— Emmet Fox
“Some say good things come to those who wait. Truth is, good things come to those who work; who work later, who work harder. They’re willing to go further than anyone else to get them. If you’re waiting for good things to come to you… you’ll be waiting for a pretty long time.”
— Dr. Dre
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavour, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
— John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.”
— Steve Jobs
“Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.”
- Marlene Dietrich
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”
— Eddie Rickenbacker
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you. Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view’.
Neil Gaiman
“My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
— Pablo Picaso
“It’s easier to go downhill than up, but the view is best from the top.”
— Arnold Bennett
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
— Roald Dahl
“People always say, “Be humble, be humble, be humble.” When’s the last time somebody told you, “Be great, be amazing, be awesome?” Be awesome. BE AWESOME.”
— Kanye West
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde
“When I look around at the real world, it’s a world full of greys. Even the greatest heroes have weaknesses and even the blackest villains are capable of acts of compassion and humanity. People are complicated and I want my characters to be complicated too.”
— George R.R. Martin
“One day, you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family”
— Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
“You write. That’s the hard bit that nobody sees. You write on the good days and you write on the lousy days. Like a shark, you have to keep moving forward or you die. Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.”
— Neil Gaiman
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”
— Neil Gaiman
“You must write every single day of your life. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
— Ray Bradbury
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.”
— Neil Gaiman
I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved them, then tell me why they loved you. Tell me about a day in your life you didn’t think you’d live through. Tell me what the word “home” means to you and tell me in a way that I’ll know your mothers name just by the way you describe your bed room when you were 8. See, I wanna know the first time you felt the weight of hate and if that day still trembles beneath your bones. Do you prefer to play in puddles of rain or bounce in the bellies of snow? And if you were to build a snowman, would you rip two branches from a tree to build your snowman arms? Or would you leave the snowman armless for the sake of being harmless to the tree? And if you would, would you notice how that tree weeps for you because your snowman has no arms to hug you every time you kiss him on the cheek? Do you kiss your friends on the cheek? Do you sleep beside them when they’re sad, even if it makes your lover mad? Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? See, I wanna know what you think of your first name. And if you often lie awake at night and imagine your mothers joy when she spoke it for the very first time. I want you tell me all the ways you’ve been unkind. Tell me all the ways you’ve been cruel.”
— excerpt from Asking Too Much, Andrea Gibson
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.‘ To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.”
“He had no choice, he had told her, and then he left, choosing.”
— A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin