Dana Hinders

“Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-- family, health, friends, integrity-- are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

“And because when you die, the world dies, too, at least for you, they assume the world will die for everybody. It’s a failure of imagination, in a way—an inability to conceive of the universe without you in it. That’s why old people get apocalyptic: they’re facing apocalypse, and that part, the private apocalypse, is real. So the closer their personal oblivion gets, the more certain geriatrics project impending doom on their surroundings. Also, there’s almost a spitefulness, sometimes. I swear, for some of these bilious Chicken Littles, imminent Armageddon isn’t a fear but a fantasy. Like they want the entire planet to implode into a giant black hole. Because if they can’t have their martinis on the porch anymore then nobody else should get to sip one, either.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F. M. Alexander”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“Real poverty is about doing what you have to do as opposed to what you want.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047