"It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story."

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Source : "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

Patrick Rothfuss

#Life Quotes #Healing Quotes #Identity Quotes

“If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.”
“I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.”
“We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.”

Source : Brian Cox, Jeffrey Robert Forshaw (2011). “The Quantum Universe: (and Why Anything That Can Happen, Does)”, p.6, Da Capo Press
“You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.”
“We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.”
“In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be â€˜desertâ€™), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happenâ€¦”
“It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.”
“As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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