#or

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat. ↗

— Richard Koch

#career #hard-work #motivation #productivity #work

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. ↗

— Colum McCann

#colum-mccann #let-the-great-world-spin #life #men

Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously... ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#men

I learned another rule, men don't buy men flowers ↗

— Dora Okeyo

#love

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#fireheart #firepaw #firestar #hunter #medicine

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#honor #men

[R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#motivational

...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years. ↗

— William Faulkner

#past #time #men

This was dangerous talk—in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of an ugly wife and yet more women of an attractive rival. ↗

— Joss Alexander

#witchcraft #witchcraft-trials #men

Since the sheets were half-flown the sails instantly split at the seams, the maintopsail shaking so furiously that the masthead must have gone had not Mowett, the bosun, Bonden, Warley the captain of the maintop and three of his men gone aloft, laid out on the ice-coated yard and cut the sail away close to the reefs. Warley was on the lee yardarm when the footrope gave way under him and he fell, plunging far clear of the side and instantly vanishing in the terrible sea. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#aubreyad #master-and-commander #the-far-side-of-the-world #will-warley #men