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“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others. I wasn’t interested in slotting myself into a passive role, waiting for Barack’s team to give me direction. After coming through the crucible of the last year, I knew that I would never allow myself to get that banged up again.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“The reason we is such a fun word is that half of the time it is used as a way to bring the speaker closer to others and the other half of the time to deflect responsibility away from the speaker. And”
― The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
― The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
“In Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, we read: "An oyster opens wide at full moon. When the crab sees this, it throws a pebble or a twig at the oyster to keep it from closing and thus have it to feed upon." Da Vinci adds the following suitable moral to this fable: "Like the mouth that, in telling its secret, places itself at the mercy of an indiscreet listener.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“The difference between the good and the great is the difference between your mindset and your skill set. In a world where skills are bountiful, and increasingly outsourced to cheaper parts of the world, we need more than skills to survive, let alone thrive. Mindset separates the best from the rest: the right mindset drives the right habits, which drive the right performance.”
― The Mindset of Success: From Good Management to Great Leadership
― The Mindset of Success: From Good Management to Great Leadership
Cassandra’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cassandra’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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271 friends
414 books
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131 friends
1,147 books
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274 friends
590 books
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190 friends
328 books
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232 books
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150 friends
161 books
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89 friends
170 books
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265 friends
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