Quotes About Reflection

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

The more aware we are, the less likely any trigger, even in the most mundane circumstances, will prompt hasty unthinking behavior that leads to undesirable consequences.

If you know what matters to you, it's easier to commit to change. If you can't identify what matters to you, you won't know when it's being threatened. And in my experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Diaper spelled backwards is repaid , think about it.

The poet's house was a city of glass:

One day, years later, the soldiers wheeled around to find themselves in a city of glass. Their rifles turned to carnival glass; bullets dissolved, glittering, in their hands. From the poet's zoo they heard monkeys cry; from the poet's observatory they heard poem after poem like a call to prayer.

Who are we without our memories?

I said his name softly to myself. Lucky. Lucian Radcliffe. His name must come from the Latin lucianus, meaning light, and that's what he was, golden and bright. I didn't care what Jack's name meant. Probably Jackass.

out shortcomings, suggest solutions, and collaborate

Gli passò per la testa, in quei omenti, che anche lui avrebbe potuto sparire nel nulla. Si trattava solo di capire che forma dare a quel nulla.

Parodiando. Es decir, odiando un poco...

tal vez, las cosas que nos mueven a hablar son las únicas cosas sobre las que merece la pena escribir.

Meses más tarde Lourdes Ruiz, la Reina del Albur, se murió de un infarto a poco de haber cumplido 47 años.)

Mo?e i prawda, ?e postawa, jak? zajmuje ka?dy z nas wobec tego, co ogromne, co zdaje si? nienaruszalne, niewiele mówi. Ale przynajmniej wyja?nia co? w tak drobnej kwestii, jak pytanie o to, kim, do diab?a, jestem.

que se te muera un hijo es alegría. Y creo —ahora, sin más dudas, creo— que todo lo que pueda decir sobre la esclavitud es redundante.

If we read Dickinson's letters looking for action in the usual sense—where she traveled, what chores she did, whom she encountered—we find some details for reconstructing her days, but not many. But if we read the letters for what the poet thought, her interior world opens.

Emily could hardly get up in the morning without metaphors and images flooding her mind. Often her letters to Austin took on the appearance of a composition exercise, as if she were trying to freeze a moment in words and capture not only the look, but also the feel of an instant.

she also shed her youthful need to exaggerate, flaunt her wit, and trot out erudition. She still sent poems to mark an event or nudge someone to write, but her poems became less about what happened and more about what she was thinking. Poems sent in letters . . . rose above daily concerns to larger contemplations on nature, faith, and loss. Images of boats, sailors, and the view from shore appeared frequently.

This body is a loaner I'll have to give back at some point and how I treat it will play a part in how long I get to use it and how much use I get out of it. That has really hit home lately. But I don't need to do any of it perfectly, or as well as it seems someone else is doing, or even great every single day. I just have to try and occasionally ask myself, is this still what you want? And then adapt, change and head out again.