#passive

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It was then that my gaze happened to fall on the bookcase, on the gap there, where the old paperback of "Nine Stories" had fallen flat. "Where's the thing?" I said. "What thing?" "The mesh. My mesh." She shrugged. "I tossed it." "Tossed it? Where? What do you mean?" In the next moment I was in the kitchen, flipping open the lid of the trash can, only to find it empty. "You mean outside?" I shouted. "In the dumpster?" When I came thundering back into the room, she still hadn't moved. "Jesus, what were you thinking? That was mine. I wanted that. I wanted to keep it." Her lips barely moved. "It was dirty.


T.C. Boyle


#dysfunctional-relationships #passive-aggression #shaming #home

Book authors are in high demand for speaking engagements and appearances; they are the new ‘celebrity’ and celebrities gain access. Authors not only make money from royalties or book advances but from their keynotes, presentations and strategically branded product lines. This includes entrepreneurial ideas for you to extend yourself beyond just writing and prepares you to add speaking and consulting to your revenue stream. You have to begin to look outside book sales and towards the speaking market. There are radio, interviews, news, television, small channel television keynotes, lectures, seminars and workshops. These types of events have the possibility to be much more lucrative than just selling books. In essence, the book builds and brands you in the public eye. It gives you credibility and the opportunity to be more than you are. It enables you to now be a voice, a teacher, a leader, an expert - after all, you wrote the book on it!


Kytka Hilmar-Jezek


#book-power #branding #celebrity #passive-income #royalties

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.


Claude Bernard


#experimentation #observation #passive #science

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.


Danny Boyle


#always #destiny #feels #obey #passive

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.


Jim Caviezel


#i #i think #making #passive #think

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.


Ronald Reagan


#counted #did #had #passive #today

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.


Alan Rickman


#appeals #maverick #me #more #passive

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.


Martin Luther King, Jr.


#against #cooperating #evil #helps #involved

When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!


Adam S. McHugh


#conflict #introverts #passive-aggressive #anger