#kindlehighlight

A recipe is much easier to copy than a business. ↗

— Jason Fried

#business

Services isolated on business logic can share data sources with other systems. ↗

— Paul Dix

#business

Winners recognize that even when they aren’t physically selling a product, they are always selling themselves. Every human interaction is an opportunity to connect—and then to sell. ↗

— Frank I. Luntz

#business

Winners know what makes people tick by effectively tapping into our fears and aspirations. By listening very carefully and then repeating almost word-for-word exactly what they’ve heard, winners know how to articulate compelling needs—and products to satisfy those needs—that people didn’t even know they wanted. ↗

— Frank I. Luntz

#business

Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you know that connecting those threads is what you are supposed to do and business takes care of itself. ↗

— Susan Scott

#business

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#beauty

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#change

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#change

Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu’s angels. They were like heroes and kings. They belonged in stories. They belonged out there. Taborlin the Great called up fire and lightning to destroy demons. Tehlu broke them in his hands and sent them howling into the nameless void. Your childhood friend didn’t stomp one to death on the road to Baedn-Bryt. It was ridiculous. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#death

It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#death