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“It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Strain

“Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Strain

“Your life is your garden
and your thoughts are your seeds,
so if your life isn't awesome
you've been watering the weeds.”
― Terry Prince

“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“If you're good at something, never let your friends know, because for their purpose,they will make you do it for free ”
― Himmilicious

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
― Maya Angelou

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
― Maya Angelou

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
― Maya Angelou

“You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.”
― Kekla Magoon, The Rock and the River

“It's not that you said it. I care that you even though it.”
― Kekla Magoon, The Rock and the River

“The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest of me thinks that artificially splitting off the scientist in me from the writer in me is actually a kind of cultural bipolar disorder, one that too many of us have. The scientist asks how I can call my writing vocation and not addiction. I no longer see why I should have to make that distinction. I am addicted to breathing in the same way. I write because when I don’t, it is suffocating. I write because something much larger than myself comes into me that suffuses the page, the world, with meaning. Although I constantly fear that what I am writing teeters at the edge of being false, this force that drives me cannot be anything but real, or nothing will ever be real for me again.”
― Alice Weaver Flaherty, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Every distraction imposes a cost on the depth of your focus. When your brain changes contexts—say, going from painting a picture to answering a text and then back to painting again—there’s a switching cost. Your brain has to load a different set of rules and information into working memory. This “boot up” costs at least a few minutes, and for complex tasks, it can take even longer. The two of us have found it can take a couple of hours of uninterrupted writing before we’re doing our best work; sometimes it even requires several consecutive days before we’re in the zone.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day

“Every time you check your email or another message service, you’re basically saying, “Does any random person need my time right now?”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Every mistake [is] just a data point.”
― John Zeratsky (author) Jake Knapp (author), Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“something magic happens when you start the day with one high-priority goal.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“You only waste time if you’re not intentional about how you spend it.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“We’re the descendants of those ancient humans, but our species hasn’t evolved nearly as fast as the world around us has. That means we’re still wired for a lifestyle of constant movement, varied but relatively sparse diets, ample quiet, plenty of face-to-face time, and restful sleep that’s aligned with the rhythm of the day.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Combine the four-plus hours the average person spends on their smartphone with the four-plus hours the average person spends watching television, and distraction is a full-time job.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Shifting your focus to something that your mind perceives as a doable, completable task will create a real increase in positive energy, direction, and motivation.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day

“Perfection is a distraction—another shiny object taking your attention away from your real priorities.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day

“When distraction is hard to access, you don’t have to worry about willpower.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day

“Make Time is a framework for choosing what you want to focus on, building the energy to do it, and breaking the default cycle so that you can start being more intentional about the way you live your life. Even if you don’t completely control your own schedule—and few of us do—you absolutely can control your attention.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“The courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing, it’s about the courage to show up when you can’t predict or control the outcome.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Show up for people in pain and don’t look away.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.