#gem

A snake bites your ankle. Recoiling, you scream. Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream... ...where a man bites your ankle. Expecting no guile, "Again," softly falls from your lips with a smile. Yet, the man and the snake are the same. Your perception is only to blame. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#judgement #perception #poetry #richelle #richelle-goodrich

He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be. ↗

— Colin Clark

#encouragement #education

Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. ↗

— Alan Lakein

#equality

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#equality #life-balance #motivation #productivity #time

Urgent equals ephemeral, and ephemeral equals unimportant. ↗

— John le Carré

#time-management #urgent #equality

When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#help #judgement #religious #experience

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#intuitition #judgement #unconscious #experience

...learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning. ↗

— Richard DuFour

#learning #experience

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits. ↗

— Laura Esquivel

#exclusion #immigration #judgement #punishment #slavery

Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#happiness-life #inspiration #life-balance #self-improvement #self-worth