1. Long-term is it. Short-term fluctuates too much.

2. Children don’t care if you like the book or not.

3. Annual reviews strike me as a waste of time. Shouldn’t you be getting feedback year-round?

4. Where was the first banana republic?

5. “Prediction,” as Niels Bohr liked to say, “is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”

–Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Think Like A Freak

1. Free shoes are such a good gift.

2. You might pass your dreams.

3. Forget yes. What if you said no?

4. Writing = Failure

5. “My wife says that I’m too nice, while I claim that she’s just a very, very bad person. Around the time we started living together, we had a serious fight about it. It started when I came upstairs with a cabdriver who’d taken me home from the university. He had to pee. She awoke to the sound of his flushing the toilet, and she walked into our living room not fully dressed. The skinny cabdriver came out of the bathroom and gave her a polite “Good morning” while zipping up. She responded with a quick “Oh my God” and ran back into the bedroom.”

–Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years