Thursday, December 31, 2020
Monday, December 21, 2020
Estabas muy cerca. Pedro Salinas.
«Estabas muy cerca. Sólo
nos separaban diez ríos,
tres idiomas, dos fronteras:
cuatro días de ti a mí".
"Fábula y signo", Pedro Salinas
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Friday, September 18, 2020
Friday, September 4, 2020
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes VII
-Habits+Deliberate practice = Mastery.
-Career Best Effort Program implemented by Pat Riley in the Lakers in the 80's. Stats divided by minutes played give you the coefficient of performance.
-The way to be successful is to learn how to do things right, then to do them the same way every time.
-Power of reflection and review.
-Improvement is not just about learning habits, it is also about fine-tuning them.
-You don't want to keep practicing a habit if it becomes ineffective.
-Around September of each year I conduct an Integrity report to revisit my core values and reflect on my identity and how I can work toward being the type of person I wish to become.
-Worrying too much about every daily choice is like looking at yourself in the mirror from an inch away.
-Periodic reflection and review is like viewing yourself in the mirror from a conversational distance. You can see the important changes you should make without losing sight of the bigger picture.
-Keep your identity small. The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you.
-Everything is impermanent.
-The holy grail of habit change is not a single one percent improvement, but a thousand of them.
-Gradually, as you continue to layer small changes on top of one another, the scales of life start to move. Each improvement is like adding a grain of sand to the positive side of the scale.
-Success is not a goal, it is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.
-The secret to getting results that last it to never stop making improvements.
-Happiness is the absence of desire.
-Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems.
-Being curious is better than being smart.
-Emotions drive behavior.
-Reward is on the other side of sacrifice.
-Being poor is not having too little. It is wanting more.
-If your wants outpace your likes, you'll always be unsatisfied. Your are perpetually putting more weight on the problem than the solution.
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes VI
-People are borne with different abilities.
-Genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
-How do I figure out where the odds are in my favor? How do I identify the opportunities and habits that are right for me? The first place we will look for an answer is by understanding your personality.
-When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different.
-What do the really successful people do that most don't? The ones who can handle the boredom of training every day.
-It all comes down to passion.
-The greatest threat to success is not failure, but boredom.
-You have to fall in love with boredom
-Stepping up when it's annoying or painful or draining to do so, that's what makes the difference between a professional and an amateur.
-When a habit is truly important to you, you have to be willing to stick to it in any mood.
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes V
-The secret is to always stay below the point where it feels like work.
-The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do.
-When the immediate consequence is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice versa.
-Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit.
-Show up and add to the streak.
-The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
-This is a distinguishing feature between winners and losers. Anyone can have a bad performance, a bad workout, or a bad day at work. But when successful people fail, they rebound quickly. The breaking of a habit doesn't matter if the reclaiming of it is fast.
-You don't realize how valuable it is to just show up on your bad days. Lost days hurt you more than successful days help you.
-Never interrupt it unnecessarily.
-Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days. Simply doing something, ten squats, five sprints, a push-up, anything really, is huge. Don't put up a zero. Don't let losses eat into your compounding.
-It's easy to train when you feel good, but it's crucial to show up when you don't feel like it. Going to the gym for five minutes may not improve your performance, but reaffirms your identity.
-When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes IV
-It is the anticipation of the reward, not the fulfillment of it, that gets us to take action.
-Our friends and family provide a sort of invisible peer pressure that pulls us in their direction.
-Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You'll rise together.
-Humans everywhere pursue power, prestige and status.
-Saving money is often associated with sacrifice. However, you can associate it with freedom rather than limitation if you realize one simple truth: living below your current means increases your future means. The money you save this month increases your purchasing power next month.
-You can reframe 'I am nervous' to 'I am excited and I am getting an adrenaline rush to help me concentrate'.
-If you want to master a habit, the key is to start with repetition, not perfection.
-Habits form with frequency, not time.
-Habits are easier to build when they fit into the flow of your life.
-Create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible.
-The purpose of resetting each room is not simply to clean up after the last action, but to prepare for the next action.
-The greater the friction, the lest likely the habit.
-The point is to master the habit of showing up.
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes III
-Try, fail, learn, try differently.
-We can't always explain what it is we are learning, but learning is happening all along the way.
-You are much more than your conscious self.
-We must begin the process of behavior change with awareness.
-Many of our failures in performance are largely attributively to a lack of self-awareness.
-Does this behavior help me become the type of person I wish to be?
-Hearing your bad habits spoken aloud makes the consequences seem more real.
-A fresh start feels motivating.
-No behavior happens in isolation. Each action becomes a cue that triggers the next behavior.
-Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.
-Making a better decision is easy and natural when the cues for good habits are right in front of you.
-Environment design allows you to take back control and become the architect of your life. Be the designer of your world, and not merely the consumer of it.
-Habits can be easier to change in a different environment.
-Make the cues of your good habits obvious, and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
Atomic habits my James Clear. Quotes II
-Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. What we really need to change are the systems that cause those results.
-The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it.
-True behavior change is identity change.
-Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
-What is the type of person that could get the outcome I want?
-The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
-You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone.
-Habits are not about having something. They are about becoming someone.
Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes.
-I knew that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen.
-Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you are willing to stick with them for years.
-Anything wise in these pages you should credit to the many experts who preceded me. Anything foolish assume it is my error.
-If you broke down anything you know about riding a bicycle, and then improve it by 1 per cent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together.
-If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you'll end up thirty seven times better by the time you're done.
-Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.
-You get what you repeat.
-Understanding the details is crucial.
-The score takes care of itself.
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Gospel of Saint John the Baptist. Quotes II
-A quienes perdonéis los pecados, les serán perdonados; a quienes se los retengáis, les serán retenidos.
-Has creído porque has visto. Dichosos los que creen sin haber visto.
-Salí del Padre y vine al mundo; de nuevo dejo el mundo y vuelvo al Padre.
-Que todos sean una sola cosa.
-Yo en ellos y tú en mí, para que sean perfectos en la unidad.
-La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy.
-Amaos unos a otros.
-Creedlo al menos por las obras mismas.
-El que ama su vida la perderá; el que odia su vida en este mundo, la conservará para la vida eterna.
-Has creído porque has visto. Dichosos los que creen sin haber visto.
-Salí del Padre y vine al mundo; de nuevo dejo el mundo y vuelvo al Padre.
-Que todos sean una sola cosa.
-Yo en ellos y tú en mí, para que sean perfectos en la unidad.
-La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy.
-Amaos unos a otros.
-Creedlo al menos por las obras mismas.
-El que ama su vida la perderá; el que odia su vida en este mundo, la conservará para la vida eterna.
Gospel of Saint John the Baptist. Quotes.
-Porque tanto amó Dios al mundo que dio a su único hijo para que quien crea en él no perezca, sino que tenga vida eterna. Pues Dios, no envió a su hijo al mundo para condenar al mundo, sino para que el mundo se salve por él.
-El que obra mal odio la luz y no va a la luz para que no se descubran sus obras. Pero el que practica la verdad va a la luz, para que se vean sus obras que están hechas como Dios quiere.
-El hombre no puede apropiarse de nada si Dios no se lo da.
-Ningún profeta es bien considerado en su propio pais.
-Si yo testificara de mí mismo, mi testimonio no sería verdadero.
-El espíritu es el que da la vida. La carne no sirve para nada.
-¿Cómo sabe tanto sin haber estudiado?
-No juzguéis por las apariencias.
-El que de vosotros no tenga pecado que tire la primera piedra.
-He venido a este mundo para que los que no ven vean, y los que ven se queden ciegos.
-Si no hago las obras de mi Padre, no me creáis; pero si las hago, aunque no me creáis a mí, creed en las obras para que sepáis y reconozcáis que el Padre está en mí y yo en el Padre.
-Ahora estoy profundamente angustiado. ¿Y qué voy a decir? ¿Pediré al Padre que me libre de esta hora? No, pues para esto precisamente he llegado a esta hora.
-Si me amais, os alegraréis que me vaya al Padre, porque el Padre es mayor que yo.
-Amaos unos a otros como yo os he amado.
-El criado no es más que su amo.
-El que obra mal odio la luz y no va a la luz para que no se descubran sus obras. Pero el que practica la verdad va a la luz, para que se vean sus obras que están hechas como Dios quiere.
-El hombre no puede apropiarse de nada si Dios no se lo da.
-Ningún profeta es bien considerado en su propio pais.
-Si yo testificara de mí mismo, mi testimonio no sería verdadero.
-El espíritu es el que da la vida. La carne no sirve para nada.
-¿Cómo sabe tanto sin haber estudiado?
-No juzguéis por las apariencias.
-El que de vosotros no tenga pecado que tire la primera piedra.
-He venido a este mundo para que los que no ven vean, y los que ven se queden ciegos.
-Si no hago las obras de mi Padre, no me creáis; pero si las hago, aunque no me creáis a mí, creed en las obras para que sepáis y reconozcáis que el Padre está en mí y yo en el Padre.
-Ahora estoy profundamente angustiado. ¿Y qué voy a decir? ¿Pediré al Padre que me libre de esta hora? No, pues para esto precisamente he llegado a esta hora.
-Si me amais, os alegraréis que me vaya al Padre, porque el Padre es mayor que yo.
-Amaos unos a otros como yo os he amado.
-El criado no es más que su amo.
Friday, May 8, 2020
Sirácida. Frases V
-Los pájaros se juntan con sus iguales.
-Muchos caen por la espada, pero muchos más por la lengua.
-Presta al prójimo en su necesidad y devuelve a tiempo lo prestado.
-Conténtate con lo poco o lo mucho.
-El que ama a su hijo no le escatimará los azotes.
-No hay felicidad superior al gozo del corazón.
-Más vale la muerte que vida amargada.
-La vida del hombre es el gozo del corazón, y su alegría alarga los días.
-Cuando ofrezcas algo, hazlo con cara de alegría.
-El hombre que ayuna por sus pecados y luego los vuelve a cometer, ¿quién escuchará su plegaría y qué provecho sacará de sus penitencias?
-Aconséjate de hombres piadosos.
-La sabiduría del sabio crece en las horas libres.
-Conserva los discursos de los hombres famosos y penetra en las sutilezas de las parábolas.
-Todas las obras del Señor son buenas, y Él a su tiempo, atiende a cada necesidad.
-Hombre que mira a mesa ajena con ansia, vive una vida que no debe tenerse como vida.
-Haced vuestra tarea antes del tiempo fijado y en su día Él os dará la recompensa.
-Muchos caen por la espada, pero muchos más por la lengua.
-Presta al prójimo en su necesidad y devuelve a tiempo lo prestado.
-Conténtate con lo poco o lo mucho.
-El que ama a su hijo no le escatimará los azotes.
-No hay felicidad superior al gozo del corazón.
-Más vale la muerte que vida amargada.
-La vida del hombre es el gozo del corazón, y su alegría alarga los días.
-Cuando ofrezcas algo, hazlo con cara de alegría.
-El hombre que ayuna por sus pecados y luego los vuelve a cometer, ¿quién escuchará su plegaría y qué provecho sacará de sus penitencias?
-Aconséjate de hombres piadosos.
-La sabiduría del sabio crece en las horas libres.
-Conserva los discursos de los hombres famosos y penetra en las sutilezas de las parábolas.
-Todas las obras del Señor son buenas, y Él a su tiempo, atiende a cada necesidad.
-Hombre que mira a mesa ajena con ansia, vive una vida que no debe tenerse como vida.
-Haced vuestra tarea antes del tiempo fijado y en su día Él os dará la recompensa.
Sirácida Frases IV
-Los hombres son todos polvo y ceniza.
-Cuando el hombre termina, entonces está comenzando. Cuando se detiene, queda desconcertado.
-Hijo, tus favores no los acompañes de reproches, ni tus obsequios de palabras amargas. ¿Es que el rocío no templa el hardor del sol?
-Acuérdate de los tiempos de penuria en los días de abundancia, de la pobreza y miseria en los días de riqueza.
-No te empobrezcas banqueteando con dinero prestado cuando nada queda en tu bolsa.
-El obrero bebedor nunca se hará rico.
-El hombre sabio callará hasta el momento oportuno.
-Hay éxitos que el hombre encuentra en el infortunio y hay hallazgos imprevistos que se truecan en daño.
-El duelo por un muerto dura siete días pero el del necio y el malvado todos los días de su vida.
-El maderamen bien ajustado de una edificación no es desencajado por un terremoto, así el corazón
resuelto tras madura reflexión no vacila en ningún momento.
-La rica experiencia es la corana del anciano.
-Dichoso el marido de una mujer buena.
-Cuando el hombre termina, entonces está comenzando. Cuando se detiene, queda desconcertado.
-Hijo, tus favores no los acompañes de reproches, ni tus obsequios de palabras amargas. ¿Es que el rocío no templa el hardor del sol?
-Acuérdate de los tiempos de penuria en los días de abundancia, de la pobreza y miseria en los días de riqueza.
-No te empobrezcas banqueteando con dinero prestado cuando nada queda en tu bolsa.
-El obrero bebedor nunca se hará rico.
-El hombre sabio callará hasta el momento oportuno.
-Hay éxitos que el hombre encuentra en el infortunio y hay hallazgos imprevistos que se truecan en daño.
-El duelo por un muerto dura siete días pero el del necio y el malvado todos los días de su vida.
-El maderamen bien ajustado de una edificación no es desencajado por un terremoto, así el corazón
resuelto tras madura reflexión no vacila en ningún momento.
-La rica experiencia es la corana del anciano.
-Dichoso el marido de una mujer buena.
Sirácida. Frases III
-No alabes a nadie porque el hombre será reconocido por su fin.
-¿Quién se compadecerá del encantador herido por la serpiente y del que anda con fieras?
-El rico comete injusticia y encima presume. El pobre sufre una injusticia y aún debe excusarse.
-Júntate con tus iguales.
-No te tomes la libertad de intimar con el rico, ni te fíes de su palabrería, porque con su verborrea te pondrá a prueba y entre sonrisas te irá sonsacando.
-¿Cómo se podrían juntar el lobo y el cordero? Sería igual que unir al justo con el injusto.
-La humildad es repulsiva para el orgulloso, y el pobre es repulsivo para el rico.
-Cuando el rico habla, todos callan y ensalzan hasta las nubes su buen criterio.
-El corazón del hombre se refleja en su cara.
-Hijo, recuerda que la muerte no tarda y que no te han dicho cuando vas a morir.
-Antes de morir, haz bien al amigo, según tus posibilidades.
-No te prives de un día feíz.
-Dichoso el hombre que busca la sabiduría y que discurre con inteligencia que
medita en su corazón sobre sus caminos.
-El Señor creó al hombre de la tierra y de nuevo le hará volver a ella. Le señaló un número preciso de días y tiempo fijo.
-¿Quién se compadecerá del encantador herido por la serpiente y del que anda con fieras?
-El rico comete injusticia y encima presume. El pobre sufre una injusticia y aún debe excusarse.
-Júntate con tus iguales.
-No te tomes la libertad de intimar con el rico, ni te fíes de su palabrería, porque con su verborrea te pondrá a prueba y entre sonrisas te irá sonsacando.
-¿Cómo se podrían juntar el lobo y el cordero? Sería igual que unir al justo con el injusto.
-La humildad es repulsiva para el orgulloso, y el pobre es repulsivo para el rico.
-Cuando el rico habla, todos callan y ensalzan hasta las nubes su buen criterio.
-El corazón del hombre se refleja en su cara.
-Hijo, recuerda que la muerte no tarda y que no te han dicho cuando vas a morir.
-Antes de morir, haz bien al amigo, según tus posibilidades.
-No te prives de un día feíz.
-Dichoso el hombre que busca la sabiduría y que discurre con inteligencia que
medita en su corazón sobre sus caminos.
-El Señor creó al hombre de la tierra y de nuevo le hará volver a ella. Le señaló un número preciso de días y tiempo fijo.
Sirácida. Frases II
-Hay amigos de ocasión que no te son fieles en el día de la tribulación.
-Un amigo fiel es escudo poderoso, y el que lo encuentra haya un tesoro.
-Honra a tu padre con todo tu corazón, y no olvides los dolores de tu madre. Acuérdate que fuieste engendrado por ellos. ¿Cómo podrás pagarles lo que hicieron por ti?
-En todas tus obras acuérdate del final, y no pecarás jamás.
-Si prestaste, dalo por perdido. No salgas fiador más allá de tus posibilidades.
-Aparta tus ojos de la mujer bonita, y no te fijes en belleza ajena.
-No te sientes jamás junto a mujer casada, ni te pongas con ella a la mesa a beber vino.
-No envidies la gloria del pecador.
-No tengas envidia del éxito de los malvados.
-Según el governante de la ciudad, asi sus subordinados, y según el que rige la ciudad, así sus habitantes.
-El principio de la soberbia es el pecado.
-El que es honrado en la pobreza, ¡cuánto más lo será en la riqueza!
-No alabes al hombre por su hermosura, y no desprecies a nadie por su aspecto.
-Bienes y males, vida y muerte, pobreza y riqueza, vienen del Señor.
-En el día de los bienes, se olvidan los males, y en el día de los males no se recuerdan los bienes.
-Un amigo fiel es escudo poderoso, y el que lo encuentra haya un tesoro.
-Honra a tu padre con todo tu corazón, y no olvides los dolores de tu madre. Acuérdate que fuieste engendrado por ellos. ¿Cómo podrás pagarles lo que hicieron por ti?
-En todas tus obras acuérdate del final, y no pecarás jamás.
-Si prestaste, dalo por perdido. No salgas fiador más allá de tus posibilidades.
-Aparta tus ojos de la mujer bonita, y no te fijes en belleza ajena.
-No te sientes jamás junto a mujer casada, ni te pongas con ella a la mesa a beber vino.
-No envidies la gloria del pecador.
-No tengas envidia del éxito de los malvados.
-Según el governante de la ciudad, asi sus subordinados, y según el que rige la ciudad, así sus habitantes.
-El principio de la soberbia es el pecado.
-El que es honrado en la pobreza, ¡cuánto más lo será en la riqueza!
-No alabes al hombre por su hermosura, y no desprecies a nadie por su aspecto.
-Bienes y males, vida y muerte, pobreza y riqueza, vienen del Señor.
-En el día de los bienes, se olvidan los males, y en el día de los males no se recuerdan los bienes.
Siracida. Frases.
-No te ensalces a ti mismo.
-Endereza tu corazón y mantente firme, en tiempo de infortunio, no te inquietes.
-Todo cuanto te sobrevenga, acéptalo y en los reveses de la prueba, sé paciente.
-El que honra al padre, repara su pecado.
-Hijo, ayuda a tu padre en su vejez, y no le des disgustos durante su vida.
Si llega a perder la razón, sé indulgente con él, no le afrentes tú, que están en pleno vigor.
-Cuanto más grande seas, más de has de abajar.
-La sabiduría desea un oído atento.
-Arranca al oprimido de mano del opresor, no te acobardes al hacer justicia.
-Hay una vergüenza que conduce al pecado y hay otra que es gloria y favor.
-No dejes de hablar cuando sea necesario.
-No te sometas al estúpido, ni guardes miramientos con el poderoso.
-No seas como león en tu casa, ni altanero con tus criados.
-Sé pronto para oír, y lento en tu respuesta.
-No te entregues a los caprichos de la pasión.
-Que sean muchos tus amigos, pero uno entre mil tu consejero.
-Endereza tu corazón y mantente firme, en tiempo de infortunio, no te inquietes.
-Todo cuanto te sobrevenga, acéptalo y en los reveses de la prueba, sé paciente.
-El que honra al padre, repara su pecado.
-Hijo, ayuda a tu padre en su vejez, y no le des disgustos durante su vida.
Si llega a perder la razón, sé indulgente con él, no le afrentes tú, que están en pleno vigor.
-Cuanto más grande seas, más de has de abajar.
-La sabiduría desea un oído atento.
-Arranca al oprimido de mano del opresor, no te acobardes al hacer justicia.
-Hay una vergüenza que conduce al pecado y hay otra que es gloria y favor.
-No dejes de hablar cuando sea necesario.
-No te sometas al estúpido, ni guardes miramientos con el poderoso.
-No seas como león en tu casa, ni altanero con tus criados.
-Sé pronto para oír, y lento en tu respuesta.
-No te entregues a los caprichos de la pasión.
-Que sean muchos tus amigos, pero uno entre mil tu consejero.
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1984 by George Orwell. Quotes II
-Were these people able to treat you as an inferior, simply because they were rich and you were poor?
-The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness in the prole quarters as everywhere else.
-Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets, anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
-The news is all lies anyway.
-By lack of understanding they remained sane.
-Confession is not betrayal. Only feelings matter.
-If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.
-They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done, or said, or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.
-Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
-If you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are not mad.
-Sanity is not statistical.
-The people under the sky were also very much the same.
-If there was hope, it lay in the proles.
-Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.
-Perhaps, one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
-It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.
-You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
-The Party seeks power for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, only power, pure power.
-Power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.
-Power is power over human beings. Over the body, but above all, over the mind.
-Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
-Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
-If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
-It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.
-Life will defeat you.
-It is one of the most characteristic and destructive developments of our own society that man, becoming more and more of an instrument, transforms reality more and more into something relative to his own interests and functions.
-The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness in the prole quarters as everywhere else.
-Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets, anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
-The news is all lies anyway.
-By lack of understanding they remained sane.
-Confession is not betrayal. Only feelings matter.
-If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.
-They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done, or said, or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.
-Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
-If you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are not mad.
-Sanity is not statistical.
-The people under the sky were also very much the same.
-If there was hope, it lay in the proles.
-Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.
-Perhaps, one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
-It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.
-You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
-The Party seeks power for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, only power, pure power.
-Power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.
-Power is power over human beings. Over the body, but above all, over the mind.
-Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
-Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
-If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
-It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.
-Life will defeat you.
-It is one of the most characteristic and destructive developments of our own society that man, becoming more and more of an instrument, transforms reality more and more into something relative to his own interests and functions.
1984 by George Orwel. Quotes
-You had to live with the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
-The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal, but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least buy twenty five years in a forced-labor camp.
-The lives of his mother and his sister have been sacrificed to his own.
-If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
-Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?
-The Proles are not human beings.
-Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think.
-Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.
-Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?
-To wear an improper expression on your face, was itself a punishable offense.
-The only recognize purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.
-The Party taught that the Proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.
-To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous.
-The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal, but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least buy twenty five years in a forced-labor camp.
-The lives of his mother and his sister have been sacrificed to his own.
-If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
-Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?
-The Proles are not human beings.
-Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think.
-Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.
-Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?
-To wear an improper expression on your face, was itself a punishable offense.
-The only recognize purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.
-The Party taught that the Proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.
-To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
All the Bright Places. Quotes.
-You know people call you "The Freak", right?
-Yeah. Sometimes I say and do things without thinking and... people don't like that. People like labels. The like putting you in a box. The want you to be who they want you to be.
-People don't like messy.
-Or different.
-Tell me about Eleonor.
-She was bossy... like you.
-I like her already.
-She hated reading... She only liked this Italian poet, Cesare Pavese. He said: "We do not remember days, we remember moments". Anytime I was having a bad day, she always said that. Like it was supposed to fix something...
-Did it?
-Yeah. It did.
-What else?
-She was my best friend.
-"Eleanor Markey: sister, best friend". That's a pretty good epitaph. What would yours be?
-"Violet Markey: I was here".
-Then... without really knowing... I changed... I wasn't worried about what happened if I lived, I was worried about if I didn't... What I would miss... I worried about not remembering... Not remembering all of the moments... all of the places... and that's because of Finch... because he taught me to wander... He taught me that you don't have to climb a mountain to stand on top of the world... That even the ugliest of places can be beautiful as long as you take time to look... that it's ok to get lost, as long as you find your way back. But in learning all of that, I missed seeing something more important... seeing Finch... I missed that he was in pain... I missed that he was teaching me all along how to move on... Finch was a dreamer... he dreamt while he was awake... He dreamt of all the beauty in the world and he made it come to life... Finch taught me that there's beauty in the most unexpected of places... and that there are bright places... even in dark times... And that if there isn't, you can be that bright place with infinite capacities...
-Yeah. Sometimes I say and do things without thinking and... people don't like that. People like labels. The like putting you in a box. The want you to be who they want you to be.
-People don't like messy.
-Or different.
-Tell me about Eleonor.
-She was bossy... like you.
-I like her already.
-She hated reading... She only liked this Italian poet, Cesare Pavese. He said: "We do not remember days, we remember moments". Anytime I was having a bad day, she always said that. Like it was supposed to fix something...
-Did it?
-Yeah. It did.
-What else?
-She was my best friend.
-"Eleanor Markey: sister, best friend". That's a pretty good epitaph. What would yours be?
-"Violet Markey: I was here".
-Then... without really knowing... I changed... I wasn't worried about what happened if I lived, I was worried about if I didn't... What I would miss... I worried about not remembering... Not remembering all of the moments... all of the places... and that's because of Finch... because he taught me to wander... He taught me that you don't have to climb a mountain to stand on top of the world... That even the ugliest of places can be beautiful as long as you take time to look... that it's ok to get lost, as long as you find your way back. But in learning all of that, I missed seeing something more important... seeing Finch... I missed that he was in pain... I missed that he was teaching me all along how to move on... Finch was a dreamer... he dreamt while he was awake... He dreamt of all the beauty in the world and he made it come to life... Finch taught me that there's beauty in the most unexpected of places... and that there are bright places... even in dark times... And that if there isn't, you can be that bright place with infinite capacities...
Monday, March 9, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
When Death comes by Mary Oliver
When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
Monday, February 24, 2020
Friday, January 31, 2020
The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant. Quotes II
-LeBron is bigger than me in height and width, but I enjoyed hitting, and getting hit, a lot more than him. That impacted our head-to-head matchups.
-If you want to win a championship, you, the star, have to take on the responsibility of guarding the other team’s best player. I always prided myself on guarding the best.
-In turn, I loved showing him (Westbrook) my full arsenal of weapons. One of them was mental: knowing my opponent. I knew he was competitive, as much then as he is now, so I knew he would bite at the opportunity to block my shot. So I’d throw him a hard pump fake and either get fouled or go right by him.
-Pau Gasol was like a brother to me. Over the course of my career, I suited up with dozens upon dozens of players. Among all of them, it’s safe to say that Pau was my favorite teammate ever.
-What separates great players from all-time great players is their ability to self-assess, diagnose weaknesses, and turn those flaws into strengths.
-The game provided me with every opportunity that I ever imagined it would, and along the way I learned a innumerable amount. I’m not just speaking about on the court, either. Without hoops, I would not understand how to create or write, I would not understand human nature, nor would I know how to lead.
-If you want to win a championship, you, the star, have to take on the responsibility of guarding the other team’s best player. I always prided myself on guarding the best.
-In turn, I loved showing him (Westbrook) my full arsenal of weapons. One of them was mental: knowing my opponent. I knew he was competitive, as much then as he is now, so I knew he would bite at the opportunity to block my shot. So I’d throw him a hard pump fake and either get fouled or go right by him.
-Pau Gasol was like a brother to me. Over the course of my career, I suited up with dozens upon dozens of players. Among all of them, it’s safe to say that Pau was my favorite teammate ever.
-What separates great players from all-time great players is their ability to self-assess, diagnose weaknesses, and turn those flaws into strengths.
-The game provided me with every opportunity that I ever imagined it would, and along the way I learned a innumerable amount. I’m not just speaking about on the court, either. Without hoops, I would not understand how to create or write, I would not understand human nature, nor would I know how to lead.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant. Quotes
-From day one, I wanted to dominate. My mindset was: I’m going to figure you out. Whether it was AI, Tracy, Vince—or, if I were coming up today, LeBron, Russ, Steph—my goal was to figure you out. And to do that, to figure those puzzles out, I was willing to do way more than
anyone else.
-I always felt like if I started my day early, I could train more each day. If I started at 11, I’d get in a few hours, rest for four hours, and then get back to the gym around 5 to 7. But if I started at 5 AM and went until 7, I could go again from 11 until 2 and 6 until 8. By starting earlier, I set myself up for an extra workout each day. Over the course of a summer, that’s a lot of extra hours in the gym.
-I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my game, but I also wasn’t willing to sacrifice my family time. So I decided to sacrifice sleep, and that was that.
-From a young age—a very young age—I devoured film and watched everything I could get my hands on. It was always fun to me. Some people, after all, enjoy looking at a watch; others are happier figuring out how the watch works.
-If you really want to be great at something, you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it.
-If you want to be a great basketball player, you have to be in great shape. Everyone talks about the fancy workouts and training sessions, but I also worked relentlessly to make sure that my legs and lungs were always at peak performance.
-Pain in one area of your body often stems from an imbalance somewhere else. With that in mind, it’s important to treat the root cause and not the effect.
-I always made sure my ankles were activated and moving. If your ankles are stiff, that can create problems in the knees, hips, back, and all the way up. So, I’d spend a lot of time before games working on my ankles—the core of the problem—so that I wouldn’t exacerbate the symptoms.
-I would begin stretching a couple of hours before games. Then, as the game got closer and closer, I would start doing more active, more range-of-motion things to get ready.
anyone else.
-I always felt like if I started my day early, I could train more each day. If I started at 11, I’d get in a few hours, rest for four hours, and then get back to the gym around 5 to 7. But if I started at 5 AM and went until 7, I could go again from 11 until 2 and 6 until 8. By starting earlier, I set myself up for an extra workout each day. Over the course of a summer, that’s a lot of extra hours in the gym.
-I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my game, but I also wasn’t willing to sacrifice my family time. So I decided to sacrifice sleep, and that was that.
-From a young age—a very young age—I devoured film and watched everything I could get my hands on. It was always fun to me. Some people, after all, enjoy looking at a watch; others are happier figuring out how the watch works.
-If you really want to be great at something, you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it.
-If you want to be a great basketball player, you have to be in great shape. Everyone talks about the fancy workouts and training sessions, but I also worked relentlessly to make sure that my legs and lungs were always at peak performance.
-Pain in one area of your body often stems from an imbalance somewhere else. With that in mind, it’s important to treat the root cause and not the effect.
-I always made sure my ankles were activated and moving. If your ankles are stiff, that can create problems in the knees, hips, back, and all the way up. So, I’d spend a lot of time before games working on my ankles—the core of the problem—so that I wouldn’t exacerbate the symptoms.
-I would begin stretching a couple of hours before games. Then, as the game got closer and closer, I would start doing more active, more range-of-motion things to get ready.
2019 reading list
1. January: Do as I say not as I do by Peter Schweizer
2. February: Compass, a handbook on parent leadership by J. Stenson.
3. March: With love and prayers by F. Jarvis
4. April: Win forever by Pete Carroll.
5. May: Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
6. June: Your words hold a miracle by John Osteen.
7. July: The spiritual child by Lisa Miller.
8. August: Think positive thoughts every day by Unknown.
9. September: Life after life by R. Moody.
10. October: Siddhartha by H. Hesse.
11. November: Death by E. Kubller Ross
12. December: 1984 by George Orwell.
2. February: Compass, a handbook on parent leadership by J. Stenson.
3. March: With love and prayers by F. Jarvis
4. April: Win forever by Pete Carroll.
5. May: Finding flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
6. June: Your words hold a miracle by John Osteen.
7. July: The spiritual child by Lisa Miller.
8. August: Think positive thoughts every day by Unknown.
9. September: Life after life by R. Moody.
10. October: Siddhartha by H. Hesse.
11. November: Death by E. Kubller Ross
12. December: 1984 by George Orwell.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The Mamba Mentality
Five Pillars Of The Mamba Mentality:
- Be Passionate.
- Be Obsessive.
- Be Relentless
- Be Resilient.
- Be Fearless.
Friday, January 24, 2020
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes X
-Humankind will survive only through the commitment and involvement of individuals in the own and others' growth and development as human beings.
-Through commitment to personal growth individual human beings will also make their contribution to the growth and development of the whole species to become all that humankind can and is meant to be.
-You must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you. You can be yourself only if you are no one else. You must give up their approval, whoever they are, and look to yourself for evaluation of success and failure, in terms of your own level of aspiration that is consistent with your values. Nothing is simpler and nothing is more difficult.
-When we know and understand completely that our time on this earth is limited, and that we have no way of knowing it will be over, then we must live each day as if it were the only one we had.
-There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal.
-Through commitment to personal growth individual human beings will also make their contribution to the growth and development of the whole species to become all that humankind can and is meant to be.
-You must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you. You can be yourself only if you are no one else. You must give up their approval, whoever they are, and look to yourself for evaluation of success and failure, in terms of your own level of aspiration that is consistent with your values. Nothing is simpler and nothing is more difficult.
-When we know and understand completely that our time on this earth is limited, and that we have no way of knowing it will be over, then we must live each day as if it were the only one we had.
-There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes IX
-How we interact with one another and how we experience ourselves are more important for dying persons than the content of their religious myths or their articulated philosophy of life.
-There is a cost to participation in our own radical change for the better. The price is that we become committed persons.
-There is no need to be afraid of death. It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we are alive, to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes from living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
-Death is the key to the door of life.
-It is through accepting the finiteness of our individual existences that we are enabled to find the strength and courage to reject those extrinsic roles and expectations and devote each day of our lives to growing as fully as we are able.
-We must learn to draw on our inner resources, to define ourselves in terms of the feedback we receive from our own internal valuing system rather than trying to fit ourselves into some ill-fitting stereotyped role.
-When you fully understand that each day you awaken could be the last you have, you take the time that day to grow, to become more of who you really are, to reach out to other human beings.
-The world is in desperate need of human beings whose own level of growth is sufficient to enable them learn to live and work with others cooperatively and lovingly, to care for others, not for what those others can do for you or for what they think of you, but rather in terms of what you can do for them.
-There is a cost to participation in our own radical change for the better. The price is that we become committed persons.
-There is no need to be afraid of death. It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we are alive, to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes from living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
-Death is the key to the door of life.
-It is through accepting the finiteness of our individual existences that we are enabled to find the strength and courage to reject those extrinsic roles and expectations and devote each day of our lives to growing as fully as we are able.
-We must learn to draw on our inner resources, to define ourselves in terms of the feedback we receive from our own internal valuing system rather than trying to fit ourselves into some ill-fitting stereotyped role.
-When you fully understand that each day you awaken could be the last you have, you take the time that day to grow, to become more of who you really are, to reach out to other human beings.
-The world is in desperate need of human beings whose own level of growth is sufficient to enable them learn to live and work with others cooperatively and lovingly, to care for others, not for what those others can do for you or for what they think of you, but rather in terms of what you can do for them.
Monday, January 20, 2020
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes VIII
-Through reaching out and committing yourself to dialogue with fellow human beings, you can begin to transcend your individual existence, becoming at one with yourself and others. And through a life time of such commitment, you can face your final end with peace and joy, knowing that you have lived your life well.
-We must learn to die in order that we may learn to live.
-In order to grow, you must continuously die and be reborn.
-The issue is awareness, of living in the present. Whatever our present existence consists of, if we are at one with it, we are healthy.
-Death separates us from all that we hold dear, including our very selves. It is the ultimate of separations. And unlike any other separations, we have little choice as to whether or not the separation will occur. However, what it is in our control is the quality of the separation experience.
-I have lived more in the past three months than I have during my whole life. I wish I knew forty years ago what I know now about living.
-Acceptance is the beginning of growth.
-We must learn to die in order that we may learn to live.
-In order to grow, you must continuously die and be reborn.
-The issue is awareness, of living in the present. Whatever our present existence consists of, if we are at one with it, we are healthy.
-Death separates us from all that we hold dear, including our very selves. It is the ultimate of separations. And unlike any other separations, we have little choice as to whether or not the separation will occur. However, what it is in our control is the quality of the separation experience.
-I have lived more in the past three months than I have during my whole life. I wish I knew forty years ago what I know now about living.
-Acceptance is the beginning of growth.
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes VII
-Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life.
-If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short and that everything we do counts. When it is the evening of our life we will hopefully have a chance to look back and say: it was worthwhile because I have really lived.
-It is not the quantity of life but the quality that counts.
-I am not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of hurting my family and my boyfriend. I don't want them to suffer.
-This can't go on. I want to die. I am so sorry to say that, Daddy, and I love you so much.
-And before my very eyes I saw that dying is a birth. It is terribly, terribly hard. It may be the hardest thing a person ever does. But one does emerge from the dark into the light.
-Where there is suffering the gift of courage is given.
-Death is another beginning, not an end.
-If you can face and understand your ultimate death, perhaps you can learn to face and deal productively with each change that presents itself in your life.
-If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short and that everything we do counts. When it is the evening of our life we will hopefully have a chance to look back and say: it was worthwhile because I have really lived.
-It is not the quantity of life but the quality that counts.
-I am not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of hurting my family and my boyfriend. I don't want them to suffer.
-This can't go on. I want to die. I am so sorry to say that, Daddy, and I love you so much.
-And before my very eyes I saw that dying is a birth. It is terribly, terribly hard. It may be the hardest thing a person ever does. But one does emerge from the dark into the light.
-Where there is suffering the gift of courage is given.
-Death is another beginning, not an end.
-If you can face and understand your ultimate death, perhaps you can learn to face and deal productively with each change that presents itself in your life.
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes VI
-Death follows no predictable timetable, but chooses its own time and place.
-One of the hardest kinds of death to accept is that of one's child.
-When someone you love dies, you have lost part of yourself.
-In the end we are always alone, but it is not the number of people who surround us in our dying, not is it the number of years that we have lived that is significant; it is the quality of life and the courage and strength we have shown that ultimately gives us the strength to face this final journey alone and with dignity.
-Her awareness cost her her complacency.
-It is the promise of death and the experience of dying, more than any other force in life, that can move a human being to grow.
-We are meant for something more in this life than simply eating, sleeping, watching television, and going to work five days a week.
-There is life after death. We will be reborn again one day in order to complete the tasks we have not been able or willing to complete in this lifetime.
-It was there in the midst of suffering that I found my goal. It was there in the midst of poverty, isolation and suffering that I lived more than in all the years before or afterwards.
-Where does a human been get the inner strength and equanimity to face crisis in life? What turns people with the same human potential into beautiful, caring and loving, self-sacrificing human beings?
-One of the hardest kinds of death to accept is that of one's child.
-When someone you love dies, you have lost part of yourself.
-In the end we are always alone, but it is not the number of people who surround us in our dying, not is it the number of years that we have lived that is significant; it is the quality of life and the courage and strength we have shown that ultimately gives us the strength to face this final journey alone and with dignity.
-Her awareness cost her her complacency.
-It is the promise of death and the experience of dying, more than any other force in life, that can move a human being to grow.
-We are meant for something more in this life than simply eating, sleeping, watching television, and going to work five days a week.
-There is life after death. We will be reborn again one day in order to complete the tasks we have not been able or willing to complete in this lifetime.
-It was there in the midst of suffering that I found my goal. It was there in the midst of poverty, isolation and suffering that I lived more than in all the years before or afterwards.
-Where does a human been get the inner strength and equanimity to face crisis in life? What turns people with the same human potential into beautiful, caring and loving, self-sacrificing human beings?
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