#rove

Grover: It’s a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that’s because he’s laughing at me. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#grover-underwood #reed-pipe #funny

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#been #confounding #economy #improvement #obstacles

I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #proven-guilty #humor

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#humor #proverbs #safe #sorry #humor

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice. ↗

— Linda Kaplan Thaler

#inspirational #self-improvement #humor

Take all the time & energy you waste on envy, and use it to try to improve yourself. You will find you are better off and happier than you ever imagined. ↗

— Gary Rudz

#envy #happiness #self-improvement #time #imagination

And that day, I probably walked right by them out of class, not really knowing either of them or having any idea who they'd end up being to me, but I can imagine it so accurately because I was then (and I guess I am still) in my own world of misreading people, reaching out to them in an awkward, overplanned way that blows up big-time, then retreating back in to my just-me existence, while they go around telling anyone who will listen what a tard I am. ↗

— D.C. Pierson

#introverted #loner #social-ineptitude #imagination

Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft—and then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into the words they’ve stockpiled. By compressing their intake into a matter of days, they give new ideas additional opportunities to network among themselves, for the simple reason that it’s easier to remember something that you read yesterday than it is to remember something you read six months ago. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#ideas #innocencevation #inspiration #reading #self-improvement

The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you want to be. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#judgement #self-improvement #inspirational

Tomorrow is yesterday’s excuse for today; now has no excuses. ↗

— George Alexiou

#career #goals #inspirational #self-improvement #success