Browsing: Inspirational Quotes
Celebrated Mathematician Forgets Shyness When Focused Upon Passion
Yitang Zhang, admittedly shy, is facing the uncomfortable glare of the spotlight after recently solving one of math’s great problems. Click through for his astounding story.
Gandhi Explains Why Restraint Was His Greatest Asset
Excerpt from “Quiet” | Chapter: “Soft Power“
In the West, passivity is a transgression. To be “passive,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, means to be “acted upon by an external agency.” It also means to be “submissive.” Gandhi himself ultimately rejected the phrase “passive resistance,” which he associated with weakness, preferring satyagraha, the term he coined to mean “firmness in pursuit of truth.”
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.
Excerpt from “Quiet” | Chapter: “Wonderland”
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you’ll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.”
The Yin and Yang of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
Regina Dugan On the Importance of Quiet to the Creative Process
Regina Dugan, former Director of DARPA (and deliverer of one of my favorite TED talks), on the importance of quiet to the creative process:
Why ‘success, like happiness, cannot be pursued.’
Insightful post from Jonathan Fields on the right and wrong reasons for dreaming of becoming a writer/actor/fill in the blank…
Here’s a sneak peek:
How to Enjoy Tranquility Through All of Life’s Trials
Lately, whenever I'm in between novels and psychology books, I end up in Ecclesiastes. I never stop being amazed (and comforted) that humans have been wrestling with the same exact questions for THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
Here's today's passage:
The acclaimed New York Times bestseller, now in paperback:
"Rich, intelligent... enlightening."
Bill Gates names "The Power of Introverts" one of his all-time favorite TED Talks.
QUIET has been voted the best nonfiction book of 2012
by Goodreads.com
