#peak

Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#arguing #argument #communication #debate #discourse

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death #falling #featureless #labyrinth #nothing

The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it. To us, silence is equal to peace and synonymous with quiet. Thus the common gender-specific phrase uttered by men in homes throughout the world, usually in the evening and on weekends: “Can I please get some peace and quiet, please? ↗

— Alan Eisenstock

#manspeak #equality

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#doom #judgement #prophecy #rebellion #speaking-up

The intelligent talk and the wise listen. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#listening #speaking #talk #wisdom #intelligence

Do we follow the road life’s placed before us? Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path. A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice, Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny’s arms. ↗

— Christopher Babson

#leadership-expert #leadership-keynote #leadership-speaker #motivation #motivational-quotes

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fascinated #inspirational #motivational-speaker #success #writer

Part of the reason I actually preferred Twin Peaks's second season to its first was the fascinating spectacle of watching a narrative structure disintegrate and a narrative artist freeze up and try to shuck and jive when the plot reached a point where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed (just imagine the fear: this disintegration was happening on national TV). ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#david-lynch-keeps-his-head #twin-peaks #imagination

It is not the size of a person in the fight, but the size of the fight in a person is what determines victory. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#inspirational-quotes #motivational #motivational-speaker #inspirational

Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#speak #tree #young-adult-fiction #life