One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
There is no seamen in the world who prefers a slow ship to a fast one. The painters painted better, the cooks took a little more time with the meals, and the technicians tightened the bolts just a little more. Their ship was no longer a cripple, and ...
Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
Just as novice musicians must spend many hours practicing basic skills like playing scales or mastering difficult passages--and frequently do so in the presence of their teacher, receiving immediate and individualized feedback--so must our students s...
Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards
Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made truthful sentences that shout from the outside of the inner voice of conscience. No element of confession is more crucial than the...
Writing a book is just reading one, except you get to choose the perfect ending everytime!
Magnus gave Alec a sidelong look as they climbed the rickety stairs. Alec caught the glance, and his breathing quickened; his blue eyes were bright. Alec bit his lower lip, and Magnus stopped walking. It was only a momentary hesitation. But then Alec...
Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.
Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.
They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
And the air--I don't know how to describe it exactly--it had that strange cool spring feeling in it, that feeling as if you remember something wonderful but you're not quite sure what it is.
The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.
Jesus can you show me Just how far the east is from the west, Cause I can't bear to see the man I've been Rising up in me again. In the arms of your mercy I find rest Cause you know just how far the east is from the west--- From one scarred hand to t...
...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.
Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.
One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.
Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.
She'd always despised the whole other woman thing, but here she was, entertaining the possibility.
