#Choices Quotes #Our Future Quotes
“Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.”
Source : "Turning Your Passion Into Your Position: Social Media for the New Job Market" by Ryan Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.
“Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.”
“I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.”
“Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms”
“On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in ancient Egypt.”
“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”
Source : Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.271, Macmillan
“There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.”
Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.”
Ajahn Chah
Brad Warner Author
Gil Fronsdal
Jack Kornfield Author
Nhat Hanh Monk
Sharon Salzberg Author
Stephen Batchelor Author
Stephen Levine Poet
Tara Brach Psychologist