#use

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humour #jeeves #jeeves-and-wooster #wodehouse #wooster

It’s called an ‘accomplishment’, not an ‘intent-ishment’. You’ve got to BE it to SEE it. NO MORE EXCUSES - Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#action #dreams #excuses #goals #inspirational

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. ↗

— Robert McKee

#emotion #experience #mood #museums #story

…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse Task Force of the L.A. County Commission for Women defined ritual abuse as: “Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim.The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which convey to the victim a profound terror of the cult members …most victims are in a state of terror, mind control and dissociation” (Pg. 35-36) ↗

— Chrystine Oksana

#abuse-of-power #cult #dissociation #fear #healing

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.' ↗

— Josh Groban

#confused #depressed #feel #high #i

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#excuses #haters #life #success #superstition

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#father #handy #him #house #i

Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt. ↗

— Lynette Gould

#fear #guilt #memories #rape #sexual-abuse

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content. ↗

— Kristina Halvorson

#deliver #promise #role #roles #strategy

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#because #believe #dissent #everyone #fear