The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques (Steven Magee, Health Forensics)
What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera (Aldous Huxley)
Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure (Thornton Wilder, Our Town)
Helicopter parents. Before I started at Pirriwee Public, I thought it was an exaggeration, this thing about parents being overly involved with their kids. I mean, my mum and dad loved me, they were, like, interested in me when I was growing up in the nineties, but they weren’t, like, obsessed with me (Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies)
Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d’you think? – Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man’s Land.
What makes life dreary is want of motive (George Eliot)
Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones (Yves Behar)
She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear (Stephen King, The Stand)
Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with (Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark)
We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely (Maria Montessori)