They draw on important strengths that extroverts may not have. "Most people don't know that I'm an introvert." I hear this confession from surprisingly many successful executives. Quite a few, in fact, talk at length with me about their introversion, speaking candidly and often cathartically about their experiences. Most also admit that at some point […]
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved" ~Helen Keller, first deaf blind person to earn a college degree The Best Way Out is Through movie is a wonderful dose of inspiration to get through tough […]
"If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time." Anna Neagle
Going Bovine (Hardcover) ~ Libba Bray (Author) In this ambitious novel, Cameron, a 16-year-old slacker whose somewhat dysfunctional family has just about given up on him, as perhaps he himself has, when his diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jacob, "mad cow" disease, reunites them, if too late. The heart of the story, though, is a hallucinatory—or is it?—quest […]
"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach." -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel Winner of the Mann Booker Prize 2009 In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political power ... more
When You Reach Me (Hardcover) ~ Rebecca Stead (Author) Sixth-grader Miranda lives in 1978 New York City with her mother, and her life compass is Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. When she receives a series of enigmatic notes that claim to want to save her life, she comes to believe that they are from […]
