#act

As for human contact, I'd lost all appetite for it. Mankind has, as you may have noticed, become very inventive about devising new ways for people to avoid talking to each other and I'd been taking full advantage of the most recent ones. I would always send a text message rather than speak to someone on the phone. Rather than meeting with any of my friends, I would post cheerful, ironically worded status updates on Facebook, to show them all what a busy life I was leading. And presumably people had been enjoying them, because I'd got more than seventy friends on Facebook now, most of them complete strangers. But actual, face-to-face, let's-meet-for-a-coffee-and-catch-up sort of contact? I seemed to have forgotten what that was all about. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#human-contact #business

You have the ability to choose your reactions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivational #perspective #reactions #truth

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#character #deep #fact #life #love

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#authors #business #contracts #publishers #publishing

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#come #feel #good #know #like

The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action. ↗

— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#balance #intention #thinking #business

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us. ↗

— Marc Morial

#challenge #dr #dreamer #exhort #here

Inaction is no longer acceptable. ↗

— Eric Lowitt

#inaction #sustainability #business

I never change, except in my affections. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#change

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.
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— Jarod Kintz

#buy #choir #consumption #deal #funny