Barbro

“There’s a saying: “May you live in interesting times.” To begin, it’s a curse. “Interesting” in this case uniformly means “Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire.”
― John Scalzi, The End of All Things

“Once you’re clear on what your bottom line is, you have to be willing to walk away.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“With this lesson in mind, Mullainathan and Shafir insist that certain characteristics that we attribute to individual personality (lack of motivation, inability to focus) may actually be a problem of limited bandwidth. The problem is scarcity, not the person.”
― Cass R. Sunstein, Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It

“That had been the way of their journey, for the most part. Quiet, except when her temper got the best of her, and sometimes when she shouted the sound of her voice seemed to crash in the silence like breaking glass.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World