Quotes of: How Keyword

How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?

Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The one big fact is that science traffics in ignorance, cultivates it, and is driven by it.

Ignorance: How it drives science

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obligation to drown.

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It ain’t how hard you are when you’re standing over top of someone that really matters. It’s how hard you are when someone’s standing over top of you that shows what you’re made of.

Jango's Anthem

We are not what we own; we are what we do, what we think and who we love.

The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage

One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.

Japanese Beyond Words: How to Walk and Talk Like a Native Speaker

How now, my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thien own knee?

King Henry IV, Part 1

How upset is she?” “Let me put it this way,” his brother began, “All the shit you’ve shoveled from stalls in your life is nothing compared to how deep you’re in it now.

Kidnapped Cowboy

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Role Models

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

The Realm of Possibility

Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

Running to Win: How to Achieve the Physical, Mental and Spiritual Victories of Running

If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?

Sign It Into Law: How to Put Your Petition on the Ballot

You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better

The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.

Spirit Bound

Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.

Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Business