It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate. Law 10 Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky You can die from someone els
Hello again. It’s good to see you. The Chinese word for eggplant is “qiezi” (茄子). It’s pronounced sort of like a lispy tyed-ze. When Chinese people have their pictures taken, they say “qiezi” instead of “cheese”. Try it. It does the same thing to your mouth. And, of...
thus stealing from them the value of their labor. In Bible times it must have happened just like it does today: someone with power gets undue benefit at the expense of someone without power. If God has any bias at all, it is for the underdog, and their unpaid or underpaid wages cry ...
now on foot after abandoning the car, to Balcombe Street near Marylebone Station. On the way, the gang and the police were now exchanging gunfire at each other with shocked members of the public diving out of the way.
It’s that roaring distortion that has changed my mind, that sound that is the sound of someone desperately trying to avoid being sucked into the downward spiral, its abrasiveness paradoxically the thing that attracted many of us longing for our own real connection. There was something there, ...
Part of this was smart coaching against the Falcons' surprisingly weak coaching. Abraham is one of the league's few defenders who has the green light to make lots of inside moves, playing for the sack but abandoning containment. A dozen times Saturday night, Abraham made an inside move. Rod...
candidate for change. In the first place, it fits well in my skull. Like into an old shoe. I’ve had it with me for the last 48 years, and I’ve grown to like it. I’m not abandoning it for some unknown substitute. That would be disloyal and would in any case not work for ...
Knowing our assigned table was next to the window, I went down to dinner abandoning the seats that had served me well all day. I usually change clothes and do my hair and makeup for dinner, but i just went straight down, tote bag with equipment in hand. Photo ©Jean Janssen. We ...
This week’s calamity in Israel has ended my sense that someone, somewhere, is still on the job and competent. The mid-1950’s were a cheery time to be born in America, particularly if one were Caucasian. The Second World War had recently ended and was fought and won for a just ...
In the end he had to settle for P17 in Q1 after abandoning his final lap. “The only thing was I didn’t want to be in Q2 at the expense of the wrong person,” he noted. “If it happened that it played out and I knocked my teammate out of Q2 that would have been a disaster...