#kindle

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#men

money I could hardly think of it. “Go on, take it. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#money

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#freedom

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#action

ALL HE COULD SEE, IN EVERY DIRECTION, WAS WATER. It was June 23, 1943. Somewhere on the endless expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Army Air Forces bombardier and Olympic runner Louie Zamperini lay across a small raft, drifting westward. Slumped alongside him was a sergeant, one of his plane’s gunners. On a separate raft, tethered to the first, lay another crewman, a gash zigzagging across his forehead. Their bodies, burned by the sun and stained yellow from the raft dye, had winnowed down to skeletons. Sharks glided in lazy loops around them, dragging their backs along the rafts, waiting. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#world-war-ii

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works. ↗

— Seth Godin

#change

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#men

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#enthusiasm #interest #kindle #successfully #sure

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. ↗

— Voltaire

#books #communicate #fetch #find #fire

Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow! ↗

— Isabel Yosito

#deep #deep inside #grow #inside #joy