Browse 767 quotes about Nonfiction.
“When we first wake up our minds are clear, which makes this the opportune time to direct our focus inwards, to organize our thoughts and to set our daily intentions through a few moments of meditation. Our duties and obligations have not yet begun to crowd our schedule, and the clarity of the dawn creates an open, undistracted mental space.”
Source: The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
“By meditating on our thoughts, feelings, and desires, we are encouraging a sense of self-awareness and self-mastery. We observe the whimsical and impulsive movements of our mind without getting caught up in them, and in doing so we develop a greater understanding of ourselves.”
Source: The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
“We are existing in a thin sliver of light between two potentially infinite portions of darkness.”
Source: The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
“The marketing message is that women need to have a reason to drink, whether it’s girls’ night, a fancy occasion, or just getting through another day of exhaustion. It’s implied that we need permission to drink, as we do when we buy things.”
Source: Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much
“I believe that there is something in all of us that is seeking expression, that wants to be heard, that wants to be accepted and respected and loved. We each express ourselves in different ways - through manipulation or domination, through receiving and giving pain, through crying, through loving, through giving hope and inspiration to others. We are all seeking the same thing - expression of who we are and what we want from this life.”
Source: Warning! Proceed With Caution Into the Practice of Law
“from the Basement tapes
Eric outdid Dylan with the apologies. To the untrained eye, he seemed sincere. The psychologists on the case found Eric less convincing. They saw a psychopath. Classic. He even pulled the stunt of self-diagnosing to dismiss it. "I wish I was a fucking sociopath so I didn't have any remorse," Eric said. "But I do."
Watching that made Dr. Fuselier angry. Remorse meant a deep desire to correct a mistake. Eric hadn't done it yet. He excused his actions several times on the tapes. Fuselier was tough to rattle, but that got to him.
"Those are the most worthless apologies I've ever heard in my life," he said. It got more ludicrous later, when Eric willed some of his stuff to two buddies, "if you guys live."
"If you live?" Fuselier repeated. "They are going to go in there and quite possibly kill their friends. If they were the least bit sorry they would not do it!”
Source: Columbine
“Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world’s finest wines. For a moment you might imagine you’ve been mysteriously wafted to the French countryside, but no, this is the East End of Long Island, the most exciting new wine region in North America. You’ve reached your destination, but your journey of discovery has barely begun”
Source: Long Island Wine Country: Award-Winning Vineyards Of The North Fork And The Hamptons
“Until that fateful moment, I did not quite understand the anatomy of fear. Creeping up surreptitiously, it could permeate your skin and, before you knew it, course through your veins like a tidal wave. A thumping heart and a parched mouth were classic symptoms of surrender. With the rational side of the brain hijacked, fear could paralyse you at will or compel you to jump out of your skin when you most need to stay calm. Standing in those raging waters, I learnt that fear most certainly could kill”
Source: Invictus
“In love with Tawang. I still am.
I’ve clung on to every bit of its wonder within the snow globe of my memory, whilst an instrumental piece of music plays in the background. It was a CD that my father played often in his room at the barracks. I had read somewhere that every memory has a soundtrack of its own. ’Tis true! Th at
piece of instrumental music and Tawang are inextricably entwined in my head.”
Source: Invictus
“The journey back to civilisation was often a whole lot faster and just as dramatic. On an MI-17 helicopter no less! Sitting atop and around military cargo. The best way to describe the Tawang sojourn was to compare it to a VR game, where one went from 'Jack and the Beanstalk' to the land of Black Hawk Down, all within nine weeks”
Source: Invictus
“I explain in detail why I feel Homicide is better than Suicide in chapter 1,
For every person who has lost their cancer battle, there is someone who has won, Here's my cancer story.
All relationships are gifts and will come to an end, sometimes not like the way we want.”
Source: My Life is a Soap Opera
“True, real, present, gentle listening is one of the most powerful acts of devotion. It tells the other person: You are real. You matter. You don't have to fight to exist here.”
Source: 20 Reasons Why People Dump Each Other
“It might be useful to think about authoritarianism, totalitarianism, or any kind of dictatorship in the same way we think about dangerous, life-threatening, infectious diseases. The best prevention against such a disease is to build immunity. Education is like a vaccination. Understanding history is part of the process of making ourselves more immune to the dangers of dictatorship.”
“Most damage doesn’t happen suddenly. It accumulates quietly.”
Source: THINK TWICE: A Memoir —Delayed Desire and Irreversible Damage
“It's all about the Sun.”
Source: Awakened Sun: The 11:11 Code Revealed
“Never underestimate the potential of a person with a disability. You might be looking at a future author that will inspire the discouraged at heart.”
Source: In My Right Mind: My Life with Epilepsy
“Nice isn’t strength. Nice is just insecurity in a button-up shirt.”
Source: Mr. Gentle. Mr. Ghosted - No One Wants a Nice Guy: You gave up on your damn self - and thats why she´s ghosting you. A brutal wake-up call for men who wanna know why they keep losing.
“There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“You truly do have the power to reach your goals.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“It’s up to you to make your dreams real.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you’re trying to accomplish.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“The biggest regrets people have aren’t about what they did, but what they didn’t do.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you’ll feel.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“If all else fails, try to get some sleep…whether you realize it or not, getting enough sleep can make it easier to solve problems, control your emotions, and cope with change.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“Identify your Radar – it’s your brain functioning optimally; not a vague intuition or cosmic sixth sense.
Train your Radar in key areas like: evaluating people, personal safety, healthy relationships, physical and mental well-being, money and credit cards, career choice, how to get organized.
Meet the Radar Jammers. They have the power to turn down or turn off our clear thinking Radars.
Some are well known: alcohol and drugs, peer pressure, infatuation, sleep deprivation.
Others are surprising: showing off, fake complexity, anger, unthinking religions, the need for speed, dangerous personality disorders, and even fast food!
Learn reasonable approaches and specific techniques to deal with them all.”
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. A vigorous totalitarian order requires that the people be invested in the leader's scheme, and while genocide may be the most perverse and ambitious means to this end, it is also the most comprehensive. In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary instance of chaos and anarchy associated with collapsed states. In fact, the genocide was the product of order, authoritarianism, decades of modern political theorizing and indoctrination, and one of the most meticulously administered states in history. And strange as it may sound, the ideology–or what Rwandans call "the logic"–of genocide was promoted as a way not to create suffering but alleviate it. The specter of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual–always an annoyance to totality–ceases to exist.”
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
“Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I've heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad.”
“Today we say goodbye to a proud warrior. As we leave, each of us will take our members of [USS} Midway with us...you guys were the 'Magic.' It was a privilege to sail with you.”
“By being proactive, engaged, and committed to personal growth, you can create lasting connections that will benefit you academically and professionally.”
Source: Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University
“Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.”
Source: Crisis, Issues and Reputation Management: A Handbook for PR and Communications Professionals
“For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.”
Source: Crisis, Issues and Reputation Management: A Handbook for PR and Communications Professionals
“I proposed limits to tech’s addictive design features and reforms to confront tech’s political censorship. This followed from my efforts as Missouri attorney general to investigate Facebook (and Google) for antitrust and consumer protection violations. I was the first state attorney general in the nation to launch such a probe. Facebook, Inc. was not amused.”
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, Jewish first and then Greek. (Romans 1:16 - ONM)
To the Jew first. What an incredible yet controversial proposition. To some, Israel is a political argument centred on the issue of land acquisition and misdemeanours against other nations. On the other hand, some perceive Israel as a religious representation of all things that are opposed to things biblical (under the law and not under grace...and all that), both camps missing the point completely.”
Source: The Hidden Tree
“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.”
“In the room, the clocks tick, unseen.
It has been a day of shadows and redirection,
revelation and lies. Diane gets the vague
sense that Kotey — with his confi dence and
his silence — might think himself to be the
smartest person in the room. He is intelligent
yes, but it’s an intelligence that needs to wear
a disguise. And besides, the smartest person
in the room is the one who knows she, or
he, is never the smartest at all: herein lies the
contradiction. She wonders now if he has just
said exactly the things she wanted to hear? She
knows herself to be naïve at times: she admits
this to herself. Yes, it is true, she has often been
far too open to people in the past. She has been
stung. Government offi cials who have deceived
her. Pretenders from the FBI. Misdirection
from the State Department and White House.
Politicians. Negotiators. Informers. Conmen.
And, perhaps now, Kotey. But she also knows
that the naivety is necessary to cultivate
something deeper. She wants to remain open
to the world. Compassion, Lord. And mercy.
And patience.
There will be one more session tomorrow.
Perhaps they will achieve something more
than this intimate stand-off . But then again,
perhaps nothing.
She pulls back her chair and thanks him. It is
dangerous, she knows, to thank him, her son’s
murderer. But she must do it anyway. Perhaps
it’s only politeness. Perhaps it’s something
more.
“In another life,” she says, “you and Jim might
have been friends.”
“Memories preserves the past, keeping it fresh in the mind; and as a matter of fact. Imagination deserves a future, a place to find the treasures of the heart; living in a faithful soul.”
“It's a bittersweet feeling to finally name what ails you after so long. On the one hand it's a relief because you can finally take action. On the other, endometriosis can feel overwhelming. There isn't enough useful information about it, nothing that encapsulates its all-encompassing nature or defines the all-involving path to recovery - except this book which is mind-blowingly relatable, relieving, and helpful.”
“Endo doesn't just affect the pelvic region. The body's response to the inflammation it causes sensitizes the central nervous system, and if you don't know what's going on - as I didn't - this sensitization ***** with your head. If your head's not right, there's a good chance you're in distress. This is where endo crosses the line from a physical ailment to an emotional one too. -- from the forward, written by Bojana Novakovic”
Source: Beating Endo: How to Reclaim Your Life from Endometriosis
“At trial, it became clear that in the macho, mustache-man world of drug-trafficking, Chapo had as much use for women, seducing them with saccharine forevers, then putting them to work in his stable—as buyers, as Blackberry-tapping go-betweens to preserve his anonymity on deals—involving their family members because there’s no glue stronger than blood.”
Source: In the Thrall of the Mountain King: The Secret History of EL CHAPO, the World’s Most Notorious Narco
“Get immersed in the beauty that surrounds you. No filters, edits, or adjustments. Experience the colors, sounds, textures and smells within your reach. Live.”
“Human+ operates both as a paradigm for understanding human-machine evolution and as a skill to be cultivated in practice.”
Source: The Platinum Workforce: How to Train and Hire for the 21st Century’s Industrial Transition
“At this point, I want to say point-blank what I hope is already clear: though agrarianism proposes that everybody has agrarian responsibilities, it does not propose that everybody should be a farmer or that we do not need cities. Nor does it propose that every product be a necessity. Furthermore, any thinkable human economy would have to grant to manufacturing an appropriate and honorable place. Agrarians would insist only that any manufacturing enterprise should be formed and scaled to fit the local landscape, the local ecosystem, and the local community, and that it should be locally owned and employ local people. They would insist, in other words, that the shop or factory owner should not be an outsider, but rather a sharer in the fate of the place and the community. The deciders should live with the results of their decisions.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you.”
Source: Unleash Your Cash Flow Mojo: The Business Owner's Guide to Predicting, Planning and Controlling Your Company's Cash Flow
“People become so caught up in a child's understanding of a world much larger than their own, one that, I imagine, they are in no great rush to understand. I think of these people, eager to burden their children with their own discomforts, every time there is a mass shooting.”
Source: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays