Singing is magic. When I sing, I own who I am. I can communicate purely. When you sing you stop using the language of “Hi, how are you…” You’re able to say things that are much more profound. Singing takes me to a mystical place where language doesn’t matter anymore, where anything is possible.
– from The Woman in Me book by Britney Spears
It’s not fair. No. It’s not …
It’s not fair. No. It’s not. Life rarely is. But we deal with it the best we can. And we allow ourselves to hope for the best. Because a life without hope isn’t a life lived at all.
– from The House in the Cerulean Sea book by T. J. Klune
Love is being able to talk …
Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word.
– from The Sympathizer book by Viet Thanh Nguyen
We tend to think that the …
We tend to think that the future happens later, but we’re creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists.
– from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone book by Lori Gottlieb
It’s so hard to predict tipping …
It’s so hard to predict tipping points that most people find it easier to pretend they’ll never happen. But a tipping point for remote work is coming. It may not be that the office completely ceases to exist, but its importance has peaked. Life on the other side of the traditional office paradigm is simply too good for too many people.
– from Remote book by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
The modern world doesn’t call for …
The modern world doesn’t call for finished products. It calls for works in progress, where perpetual improvement wins the game.
– from Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol
My eyes fall first on people’s …
My eyes fall first on people’s shoes even before I look up at their faces. Our feet tell our stories.
– from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
If you can master the art …
If you can master the art of rethinking, I believe you’ll be better positioned for success at work and happiness in life. Thinking again can help you generate new solutions to old problems and revisit old solutions to new problems. It’s a path to learning more from the people around you and living with fewer regrets.
– from Think Again book by Adam Grant
The failure to imagine the worst …
The failure to imagine the worst often results in a failure to prevent it.
– from The Death of Money book by James Rickards
The global economy is approaching a …
The global economy is approaching a three-way junction or, to be more exact, what the British call a T junction. The road that the economy is currently traveling will effectively come to an end soon. In doing so, it will yield to one of two quite different, truly contrasting alternatives: a materially better state of the world or a materially worse one. As you can imagine, the consequences for you are quite different. It really does matter, for both current and future generations, how this T junction turns out. And there is simply not enough information today to predict the outcome with sufficient confidence.
– from The Only Game in Town book by Mohamed A. El-Erian