What was going on?
Then, I watched as my world once again reformed and took on a new shape…
And he got down on one knee.
I was shaking, the air seeming to glimmer around me, a hazy wonderland where all your dreams actually came true, appearing right in front of my eyes.
“You’re not supposed to cry yet,” he teased, tracking the tears falling
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"Not yet" mindset
When we are faced with a challenge that doesn't go necessarily the way we want it to, we can learn, grow and begin to get better at that versus a "fixed mindset" which says that's just how we're built, that's just the way it is. A "growth mindset" again opens to opportunity and one aspect of it, that I really with is this notion of "not yet". Just because of something that didn't go the way you want to, doen't mean it never will go the way you want. It just means "not yet". Maybe you don't have the skills, you don't have the practice but it means you can get there. So by adopting "not yet" mindset it helps us see things as opportunities to grow. So when you meet with a frustration in your life especially around communication, say to yourself "not yet".
Matt Abrahams, ’91, lecturer in organizational behavior, Graduate School of Business
Volunteers were sent home and, after the search parties, so went the rest. The pine forests remained quiet in autumn, the boys lumbered through them. The bloodhounds barked no more, and no border patrol boats wandered the bay. And everywhere they went, it was as if the void itself, its spirit, had been released. Everything hung still, useless: the changing cabins, the sparse half empty beach. At the tram stop, the trams rolled empty, then half empty again, the doors slamming shut and opening. The last to go were the ill-fated divers, three weeks later. And so they saw the long surrender begin all around them. What it meant they knew very well, though they never dared to say the word to each other.
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I was telling you that the ring was rotten. It is—from top to bottom. It is run on business principles, and you all know what business principles are. Enough said. You are the suckers, every last one of you that is not making anything out of it.
Why are the seats falling down to-night? Graft. Like the fight game, they were built on business principles.”
He now held the audience stronger than ever, and knew it.
“There are three men squeezed on two seats. I can see that everywhere. What does it mean? Graft. The stewards don’t get any wages. They are supposed to graft. Business principles again. You pay. Of course you pay. How are the fight permits obtained? Graft. And now let me ask you: if the men who build the seats graft, if the stewards graft, if the authorities graft, why shouldn’t those higher up in the fight game graft? They do. And you pay.
“And let me tell you it is not the fault of the fighters. They don’t run the game. The promoters and managers run it; they’re the business men. The fighters are only fighters. They begin honestly enough, but the managers and promoters make them give in or kick them out. There have been straight fighters. And there are now a few, but they don’t earn much as a rule. I guess there have been straight managers. Mine is about the best of the boiling. But just ask him how much he’s got salted down in real estate and apartment houses.”
[To Jon and Louise Webb]
March 25, 1961
[...] What bothers me is when I read about the old Paris groups, or somebody who knew somebody in the old days. They did it then too, the names of old and now. I think Hemingway’s writing a book about it now. But in spite of it all, I can’t buy it. I can’t stand writers or editors or anybody who wants to
'Adil bir bey o, ve insanların büyük bir kumandanı', dedi Legolas. 'Gondor solduğu bu günlerde böylesi adamlara sahipse, yükseliş günlerindeki şanı çok yüce olsa gerektir.'
'Ve kuşkusuz iyi taş işçiliği eskiye, kentin ilk inşa edildiği döneme ait', dedi Gimli. 'İnsanların başladıkları işler hep böyledir: baharda
Bir insanın müzik listesine bakarak onun hakkında bir çok şey söyleyebilirsin.
🎬Begin Again
03.12.23
I'm starting to read books again.Let the book challenge begin! ☺️
Campbell told him: “Asimov, when you have trouble with the beginning of a story, that is because you are starting in the wrong place, and almost certainly too soon. Pick out a later point in the story, and begin again.”
This most certainly was not Techno Age storywriting advice. That would have been to begin at the beginning, and then to go on until the end, telling everything that happened along the way. This was fundamental modern science fiction writing advice—to start a story as late as possible and tell no more than was necessary.
