#ok

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. ↗

— Julien Green

#author #book #characters #escape #itself

To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance. ↗

— Dan Ariely

#human #human-behavior #mind #motivation #wok

Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles. ↗

— John Robert Gregg

#combinations #hooks #indicated

I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party. ↗

— Stephanie Mills

#i #party #smoke

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them. ↗

— Joyce Grenfell

#deteriorate #entirely #feels #get #hope

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#bed #book #even #feel #going

I always thought of Levittown as a joke. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#i #i always #joke #thought

You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything. ↗

— Melanie Griffith

#anything #been #down #fonda #helped

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#bed #bloke #came #couple #doing

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #future #i #itching #lot