Meghan Daum I respond to about a quarter of comments. It’s a good barometer of my mental health – when I’m healthy and busy, I don’t read them. – Meghan Daum Barometer Quotes Busy Quotes Comments Quotes Health Quotes Healthy Quotes Mental Quotes Quarter Quotes Read Quotes Respond Quotes We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we’re actually working hard. Though I probably shouldn’t admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I’ve achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning.
EqualityNicola Sturgeon Equality and prosperity shouldn’t be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other. – Nicola Sturgeon
Jennifer Nettles It’s important to have an examined life – but it’s a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere. – Jennifer Nettles
Matthew Slater It’s human nature, once you have success you kind of exhale and think you have it figured out. – Matthew Slater
James Balog There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what’s not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it’s possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear. – James Balog
David Grann The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy. – David Grann
Miriam Shor I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, ‘Oh my God, you aren’t making your own clothes? You didn’t make your own bread? And you also don’t have a career, and you don’t look unbelievable, and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven’t published yet?’ – Miriam Shor
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