If a young man tells his date she’s intelligent, looks lovely, and is a great conversationalist, he’s saying the right things to the right person and that’s marketing. If the young man tells his date how handsome, smart, and successful he is, that’s advertising. If someone else tells the young woman how handsome, smart, and successful her date is, that’s public relations.
After all, baby, remember what they say – sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.
Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.
Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn’t disappeared. It’s still there on the other side of the clouds.
1Q84 – that’s what I’ll call this new world, Aomame decided. Q is for “question mark.” A world that bears a question.
Father: an inspirational person; emulated, admired and much loved; strong character with exceptional patience and unrivalled wisdom; often referred to as a son’s first hero and a daughter’s first love.
Dad once said, “Someday I want to live a life where I won’t be bullied by my wallet.” I wished that someday would arrive soon because his wallet was a really big bully that said “No” and “Put that back” all the time.
Everyday experiences, like the weather, or an acute injury, simply WERE.
Even Patrick Swayze needed help sometimes.
Buddhists say that a fixed smile, however false, lights up the soul.
Physicians, nurses, and other caregivers often do not know the costs associated with their treatment protocols. And administrators rarely collaborate with them to develop outcome and cost measurements that would facilitate benchmarking and best-practice-sharing opportunities.
To paraphrase K. E. Tsiolkovsky, the founder of astronautics: The Earth is the cradle of mankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at night.” – William Blake.
Ego says: ‘Once everything falls into place, I will find Peace.’ Spirit says: ‘Once I find Peace, everything will fall into place.
Noble knights never sleep at night.
If you’re going to drink from a four-hundred-year-old goblet covered with jewels, it had better be the most expensive whisky that you can buy.
For a few years after he wrote “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Turing seemed to enjoy engaging in the fray that he provoked. With wry humor, he poked at the pretensions of those who prattled on about sonnets and exalted consciousness. “One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other ‘My little computer said such a funny thing this morning!’ ” he japed in 1951.
It is out there, outside the confines of our comforts and the pleasures of our accumulations, beyond our architecture of the routine, that we slip the bonds of our limiting beliefs, soar magnificently above our own shortcomings, and express our highest selves.
There’s an old parable about crabs pulling down any one of their own trying to escape from a pot of boiling water. There’s something to this. But more importantly, when you cultivate new habits, it’s best to be around people who have similar habits to help you reinforce them.