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“I maintain my sanity because I feel comfortable with what I have chosen to let tumble for a moment while I focus on keeping something else aloft. Everyone must create their own priorities and choose where to concentrate limited energies on any given day. Certainly, it’s the greatest waste of energy to stare at all the fallen balls and worry we dropped the wrong ones. Accept imperfection. Ask for help.”
― Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
― Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
“Beyond the coincidental connections outlined earlier, they were all linked by a shared love of outdoor (though diverse) pursuits and by being women over forty, fully into their golden fuck-it years, in which trying to impress everyone else finally takes a back seat to personal ambition.”
― Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
― Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
“Nevertheless, the Icelandic language remains a source of pride and identity. Famously, rather than adopt foreign terms for new technologies and concepts, various committees establish new Icelandic words to enter the lexicon: tölva (a mixture of “number” and “prophetess”) for computer, friðþjófur (“thief of peace”) for a pager, and skriðdreki (“crawling dragon”) for an armored tank.”
― Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
― Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
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| English Translati...: * Iceland | 55 | 1064 | Mar 18, 2019 07:51AM | |
| English Translati...: Eliza Reid - Secrets of the Spakkar | 1 | 6 | Oct 16, 2021 05:04PM | |
| Non Fiction Book ...: Elizabeth A.G.'s 2022 Nonfiction Reading Goal | 1 | 21 | Dec 31, 2021 08:08PM | |
| On The Same Page : Elizabeth A.G.'s 2022 Non-Fiction Reader Challenge | 3 | 7 | Jan 01, 2022 08:26PM | |
| English Translati...: February 2022 - read-along | 6 | 13 | Feb 24, 2022 12:22PM | |
| English Translati...: Eliza Ried - Secrets of the Sprakkar | 2 | 3 | Mar 25, 2022 09:11AM | |
| Book Nook Cafe: library book suggestion lists~ 2022 | 368 | 140 | Dec 23, 2022 05:28AM | |
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