“If you don’t resist it, once critical people have had their say, they’re done with it. Say “Thanks for being honest” or “Thanks for taking the time to let me know how you feel” or “Thanks for caring so much.” Simple, subtle, and sweet.”
Source: Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst
“There's a weird logic that explains a common truth.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Watchin you go to sleep
Finest Full Moon
Yet even though a blink glimpse;
Comparing to the eternity,
Which I set up
In it with you
Endless Joy
Spending the eternity
With you and only you
A beautiful eternity
With you always my side
Until our below 100 eternities
Are ended”
“This small act of thoughtfulness hit the heartstrings that quietly ask, Who’s taking care of you? Who’s thinking of you?”
Source: Dessert Can Save the World: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence
“Una visione politica realmente globale richiede allora di abbracciare quello che definiamo un cosmopolitismo quotidiano, una cura promiscua su scala globale che porti la nostra visione della cura al di là delle strutture di parentela, delle comunità e degli stati fino alle zone più remote ed “estranee” del pianeta. I soggetti cosmopoliti, letteralmente i “cittadini del mondo”, sono quelli che hanno a cuore il mondo.”
Source: The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
“Use your knowledge to ask questions, not to tell people what you know.”
Source: How to Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety or Losing Your Friends!: Selling from the Soul. Ancient Wisdoms. Modern Practice
“My gig is the care and feeding of engineers, and their productivity is my productivity. If they all leave, I have exactly no job. Part of your credibility as a leader is your public and repeated declaration that it’s your job to help your team succeed.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“There are, at least, three people you’ll need to make sure are aware that you want to stay in touch with them. I don’t know who these people are because I don’t know who you are or what you do, but I know that if you don’t carefully handle this transition, you’re going to lose them. If you’re looking for a way to identify these people, stare at your lunch crowd. Pick the ones whose meetings you care about. If you’ve got a folder in your inbox just for this person, you’re going to want to make sure they know you care.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“To love yourself requires loving others.”
“I had a theory—even though I'd never told anyone, not even Kat—that love was about paying attention. It's the one thing you can't buy or fake or make up for at the last minute. So the things that meant the most to me were the little details that told you someone had been paying attention, memorizing your random preferences, letting you know they cared.”
Source: Take Me Home Tonight