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Emotional intimacy involves knowing that you have someone you can tell anything to, someone to go to with all your feelings, about anything and everything. You feel completely safe opening up to the other person, whether in the form of
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“A great way to avoid useless accuracy, and to dodge the Curse of Knowledge, is to use analogies. Analogies derive their power from schemas: A pomelo is like a grapefruit. A good news story is structured like an inverted pyramid. Skin damage is like aging. Analogies make it possible to understand a compact message because they invoke concepts that you already know.”
― Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
― Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
“Strictly speaking, one never indulges in a gin before 5 p.m. Thankfully it’s always after 5 p.m. somewhere in the Commonwealth.”
― Gin O'Clock: Gin O'clock: Secret diaries from Elizabeth Windsor, HRH @Queen_UK [of Twitter]
― Gin O'Clock: Gin O'clock: Secret diaries from Elizabeth Windsor, HRH @Queen_UK [of Twitter]
“my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.”
― Gratitude: Oliver Sacks
― Gratitude: Oliver Sacks
“What matters is happy customers.”
― Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and Advertising
― Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and Advertising
“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
― Gratitude: Oliver Sacks
― Gratitude: Oliver Sacks
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