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The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls “practical intelligence.” To ...more
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S.E. Hinton
“I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.”
Susan E. Hinton, The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton
“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.”
S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton
“Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.”
S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“In other words, change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation and self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won’t work, because it doesn’t “take.”
William Bridges, Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

Maria Semple
“It’s for survival. You need to be prepared for novel experiences because often they signal danger. If you live in a jungle full of fragrant flowers, you have to stop being so overwhelmed by the lovely smell because otherwise you couldn’t smell a predator. That’s why your brain is considered a discounting mechanism. It’s literally a matter of survival.”
Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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