“Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.” WorldWayMindChurchDealsPayKnownAgreementPeace Of MindConsolationTacit Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.” ThinkingMeanStoriesCommunityDealsPracticeTheoryIndustryNewsIdealsManagementExcuseCoreFamiliarLazyAgreementFairnessPietyPreoccupationBenignPassivityAutopilotLazy Thinking Author:Joan Didion
“I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.” EnoughParentDealsHugeProfoundDeeperDivorceTeenagerUpsetAgreementJointsDisruptionCustodyJoint CustodyParents Divorce Author:Noah Baumbach
“A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.” DealsEnemyAgreement Author:Richard Holbrooke
“My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.” WayWritingHelpingTodayPastValuesOpportunityNamesDealsSecretMistakeHavensPromiseOrdinaryTradeBillsPrioritiesAgreementOur FutureOur PastNegotiationExpandingStay TrueGet AheadHardworkingTop PrioritiesSeize The Opportunity Author:Barack Obama
“Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.” MenDifferencesDealsRecordsEarsAgreementContracts Author:Bob Marley