Rebecca Wells · 395 pages
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“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“Every time I thought that I was "put together," I realized that we're always putting ourselves together, gathering the world in, letting it sift down and form us.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a bit fat mess every time.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“That it is kindness that makes you rich.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
Rebecca Wells
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“When you stop chasing all the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Sweet Ache
“Have Candace bring the ball up,” she said urgently. It was totally counterintuitive: Candace was our go-to player, on whom we counted when we needed a score. If Candace brought the ball up the court, that meant she’d have to pass it off. It meant someone else would take the last shot of the game. It meant that if we lost, everyone in the country would want to know why we hadn’t gone to the best player in the game. I nodded. It was a high-stakes decision. But I loved being the trigger puller. Loved it. I went into the huddle—and made the last critical call I would ever make in an NCAA Final Four. I looked at Lex, who would be our inbounder. “Get the ball in to Candace,” I said. I turned to Candace. “They will converge on you. Find the open player.” They all nodded and took their places. What happened next is a credit to the culture of a program in which players are taught to commit, to play all out, to attend to every detail no matter how seemingly unimportant, to never go through the motions, no matter how routine seeming, to finish with as much energy as they started with.”
― Pat Summitt, quote from Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
“the group listed dangerous insufficiencies that DARPA had to shore up at once: “Inadequate nuclear, BW, CW [biological weapon, chemical weapon] detection; inadequate underground bunker detection; limited secure, real-time command and control to lower-echelon units [i.e., getting the information to soldiers on the ground]; limited ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] and dissemination; inadequate mine, booby trap and explosive detection capabilities; inadequate non-lethal capabilities [i.e., incapacitating agents]; inadequate modeling/simulation for training, rehearsal and operations; no voice recognition or language translation; inadequate ability to deal with sniper attacks.”
― Annie Jacobsen, quote from The Pentagon's Brain
“That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .”
― Debbie Howells, quote from The Bones of You
“Sometimes it was just better to blow shit up.”
― Magnus Flyte, quote from City of Dark Magic
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