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At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for...

Sheryl Sandberg

Slim: You travel around together? George: Yeah. Slim: There ain't many guys travel around together. I don't know why. Maybe everybody in the whole damn world's scared of each other.

Of Mice and Men

I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals wit...

Bode Miller

I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring.

Elizabeth Strout

Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetso...

will.i.am

In order for your wit to be appreciated, the people around you need to be witty, too. In order for your lightness of being to be appreciated, those around you must be vibrating towards the same weightlessness. In order for your beauty to be appreciat...

C. JoyBell C.

Passing him with frightening speed, I see him sailing downward with his open parachute. “It won’t open!” “Pull harder!” Looking down, I estimate that at this speed it will only be a matter of seconds before I collide with the black lava roc...

Savage Run

if everything happens that can't be done (and anything's righter than books could plan) the stupidest teacher will almost guess (with a run skip around we go yes) there's nothing as something as one one hasn't a why or because or although (and buds k...

E.E. Cummings

I started tennis around age 2.

Tracy Austin

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Allen Klein

God desires to be Lord over you. Not Lord around your schedule. Until you learn to schedule your life around Him you will never know Him. The Lord is inviting His last day children to rediscover the joy of His presence.

The Covenant Forces of Faith

Well, I always thought of God as...an uncle," she says thoughtfully."I finally came to realize he was my father.

Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: One Woman's Journey to Experience Christianity Around the Globe

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I did was I invented a hundred artists from around the world. I figured out their bios, their passions in life and the...

Shea Hembrey

Living on the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.

How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling

Living in the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.

How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling

Sometimes we look around and realize we need new friends. That’s the sign that they are just around the bend :)

IgnitingYOU: How 52 Weeks of Inspiration and Action Can Lead You to Your Dreams

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimo...

Successful Foster Care Adoption

Whenever a group of people who are designed to primarily unite around one thing try to unite around something else, the result is devastating for all.

Southern Fried Faith: How the Bible Belt Confuses Christ and Culture

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

The Sea Around Us

She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles.

Purple Hibiscus