Mark Sullivan

“Chapter 2 Takeaway When hijacked by anxiety, we adopt the monkey mind-set, which assumes that in order to be safe we must be certain of all outcomes, we must be perfect, and we must be responsible for others’ feelings and actions.”
― Jennifer Shannon, Don't Feed the Monkey Mind: How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry

“The most expensive single undertaking of the Second World War was the B-29 Bomber, the Superfortress. The second most expensive was the Manhattan Project, the massive, unprecedented effort to invent and build the world’s first atomic bomb. But the third most expensive project of the war? Not a bomb, not a plane, not a tank, not a gun, not a ship. It was the Norden bombsight, the fifty-five-pound”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

“Your partner may not look like your parents, and on the surface they may not act like your parents. But you will end up feeling the same feelings you had as a child when you were with your parents. This includes the sense of belonging and the love you felt. But it also includes the experience and upset of not getting all your needs met.”
― Harville Hendrix, Making Marriage Simple: Ten Relationship-Saving Truths

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you’re a mile away and he’s got to run after you in his socks.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow