“Do you kiss the prince because you actually enjoy it?” Jacks asked. “Or is it because you honestly think it will magically revive him?”
“Maybe I do it because I know it will annoy you,” Evangeline answered archly.
Jacks flashed a smile that was far more wicked than welcoming. “Glad to know you’re thinking about me when you kiss your husband.”
Heat flushed her cheeks. “I’m not thinking nice things.”
“Even better.”
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Go all the way — Charles Bukowski
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise, don’t even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind.
It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision.
It could mean mockery — isolation.
Isolation is the gift.
All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it.
And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds.
And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire.
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It’s the only good fight there is.
"No; I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it."
“Don’t deny your past, Liza. It’s not your shame to carry. Grieve it, and then use it to strengthen others. You made it. You’re here, and I have no idea how, but you are. That’s the story I really want to hear. Maybe someday you’ll tell it to me, because I’d like to believe monsters don’t get the final say.”
Maybe there’s something mistaken in this desire men have to instruct us; I was young at the time, and I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew how to be not only a man in the right way but also a woman. And today when he no longer senses me as part of himself, he feels betrayed. I
Suddenly he thought oh Diane you're not worth it. You can't be worth it. No one on earth except maybe a guy's mother could be worth so much pain.
But what about the perception you are creating personally, as an individual and as the representative of your company? For starters, you only have one opportunity to establish a powerful initial perception of yourself. The cliche is correct, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression. (…)
When I go to a business meeting, and especially an initial meeting with people I've never met, I dress for the occasion. That means a Saville Row tailored suit, maybe with waistcoat vest, hand-tailored dress shirt, bold tie, antique gold pocket watch and free-flowing breast pocket handkerchief. The message to those people is, I don't look like them because I'm not like them. And when I walk into the room, I want those morons to know at a glance, in a microsecond, that their lives and destinies are going to change forever because I just walked in. But you know what - I dressed like that before I was super successful.
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The value of the mentor is perhaps the most universally acknowledged truth in the business world. A mentor, of course, is an individual who's been there, who's traveled the road you're embarking on, and sees the potholes and detours from the other side.
A Chilean poet wrote, "He who has not been down the road does well to heed the traveler." Good advice, yet very few aspiring entrepreneurs or executives ever solicit a mentor relationship.I've discussed this topic with countless senior executives, retired CEOs and others whose experience represents a storehouse of acquired knowledge and wisdom. Virtually none of them has ever been contacted about the possibility of becoming a mentor.
Too often, perhaps, executives feel they would be imposing on a potential mentor. But the fact is that most successful seniors are only too glad to pass along their experience to younger people seeking the road to success. All it takes is a phone call, an introduction, and maybe an invitation to lunch - which you pay for, in case it needs to be said! After all, men and women of this stature are forever picking up the bill - and you want the experience with you to be completely painless.
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When you keep your attention focused on the exciting, successful future that awaits you, a strange phenomenon occurs. You begin to transport yourself into that future. As you keep your eye on your goal the question ceases to be if you can get there; it quickly becomes a logistical one of how and when. You assume success. You visualize success as if it were already a reality. (…) We're not necessarily talking about visualizing years into the future either. The salesman who has already visualized a successful sale before he walks into a customer's office is already concentrating on how the sale will be made. Not if. Objections will become temporary barriers to leap around. Every "no" he gets becomes a "yes" the prospect just hasn't spoken yet. (…) Hell, maybe it's only a mental trick. Who cares? I'm telling you it works over and over and has for centuries. Because the high performance individual is impatient to get to the future, he's not afraid to take action. He'd rather "do it right away- instead of doing it absolutely right.” Don't wait until every little detail is nailed down, until every variable is perfect.
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maybe i feel too much. not that there’s anything wrong with that. but i also know how to think.
"The road was unpaved but not untravelled. It looked as if it might
see several vehicles a day. Maybe there were trucks that used it as a shortcut."
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