“When you shift conversations and explore the greatness of your team members, you're likely to be a person who creates opportunities for their strength to show up on the job.”
Source: When Fish Fly: Lessons for Creating a Vital and Energized Workplace from the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market
“We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint; how we lay it on is a question of temperament.”
Source: From The Cape To Cairo: The First Traverse Of Africa From South To North
“Edwin is prepared to believe that a glass exists. And further, that this glass holds liquid.”
Source: How to Succeed in Evil
“I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.'
He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.'
I said, 'Yes and they all smel of cow shit dont they?”
Source: Riddley Walker
“She figured the oxidants would either be defeated or win decisively.”
Source: 21st Century Intolerant: A collection of short stories about the struggles of modern life, from the trivial to the terrifying.
“I’m not so sure how well I’m doing, deep down. But this moment feels okay. And I think: I know what life is for. I don’t know how it will go, I don’t know anything at all, but it feels okay.”
Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
“Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular and we prefer the “out of sight, out of mind” escape. But there comes a time when issues must be recognized as issues — and resolved. The democratic way of life is at stake. You cannot meet today’s crisis tomorrow. You cannot pick and choose when and what you will do at your personal convenience. You cannot dawdle with history.
We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“Tell him that light comes out of the darkness; that without darkness there could be no light”
Source: The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson
“Perhaps we need to suffer a little
to strengthen.
We’re like glass, all of us
perhaps we need to break a little
leaving the cracks open
for light to enter.”
Source: Ephemeral Night Skies
“Hesse wrote an essay on what he saw as the world's publishing crisis and the fate of the book. Hesse concluded his talk with these words: 'Only a few sacred books that humankind treasures hold the regenerating power and survive throughout the millennia and the world crises. It is reassuring to see that the situation does not depend on the distribution of these works. It is not necessary for millions, even hundreds of thousands of readers to have appropriated for themselves this or that sacred book. It is enough that a few people should have been touched by them.”
Source: Maimonides: Faith in Reason