#person

I don't see why you two can't get along." "It is a personality issue," Rathenridge muttered. Dentin looked at him. No emotion, no reaction, simply bland observation. "Yours? ↗

— Rachel Rossano

#duty #humor #personality-types #rachel-rossano #rathenridge

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble. ↗

— Steven Brust

#personality #humor

No. I’m not choosing you OR him. I’m choosing ME. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#love-triangles #personal-choice #love

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which. ↗

— James A. Owen

#mystery #personality #humor

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important. ↗

— Alan Sakowitz

#character #community #family #financial-thriller #inspirational

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. ↗

— George Santayana

#personal-growth #philosophy #self-esteem #self-help #beauty

[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial accomplished, and if you failed to accomplish it you felt the pain right away. If you spent three hours at home with your family, it felt like you hadn't done a thing, and if you skipped it nothing happened. So you spent more and more time at the office, on high-margin, quick-yield tasks, and you even believed that you were staying away from home for the sake of your family. He had seen many people tell themselves that they could divide their lives into stages, spending the first part pushing forward their careers, and imagining that at some future point they would spend time with their families--only to find that by then their families were gone. ↗

— Larissa MacFarquhar

#clayton-christensen #family #long-term #personal-life #short-term

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#businessperson #greater #leverage #small #than

We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#personal-transformation #respect #change

The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#humanism #personality #business