February 2012
13 posts
How I write — Paulo Coelho's Blog →
On Notetaking II : “If you want to capture ideas, you are lost. You are going to be detached from emotions and forget to live your life. You will be an observer and not a human being living his or her life. Forget notetaking. What is important remains, what is not important goes away.”
On Story Arcs: “There are only four types of stories: love story between 2 people, love story between 3 people,...
“Put this way, the chaos ahead sounds pretty grim. But its corollary is profound:...”
– http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/generation-flux-future-of-business
January 2012
24 posts
Mediocrity isn’t a quest to be pursued
“Create (something dangerous). Mediocrity isn’t a quest to be pursued — but a derelict deathtrap to be detonated into oblivion. Hence, I’m firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion — not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond.
So dream laughably big — and then take an absurdly huge risk or two. Bet...
“This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the...”
– Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours (via noirdeoro)
5 Plane Picnics to Make Your Seatmates Jealous →
This 2-Year Old Communicates Better Than Most Her... →
Strong women build strong economies - The Term... →
Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley →
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At the Treasury Department, Summers’s office had a large conference table, with a seating area behind it. “The more senior officials, usually men, would sit at the table,” Marne Levine, who worked with Sandberg, says. “The more junior, several of whom were women, would sit in the seating area. Sheryl was always at the table,” beckoning all the junior staffers to move, exclaiming,...
All the Single Ladies →
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“Recent years have seen an explosion of male joblessness and a steep decline in men’s life prospects that have disrupted the “romantic market” in ways that narrow a marriage-minded woman’s options: increasingly, her choice is between deadbeats (whose numbers are rising) and playboys (whose power is growing). But this strange state of affairs also presents an opportunity: as the...
tincangirl:
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
December 2011
15 posts
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via letsescapethishell)
Growing up
cheryljulialee:
Sometime amidst growing up, I stopped racing trains and cars; my arms and legs grew too long and got in the way.
I stopped sticking my neck out from in between railway tracks; I have since learnt how close I have come to being run over.
I stopped using words like ‘love’ and ‘forever’ carelessly; I now know what they mean and how very heavy they are.
