Janna Quotes

from a contradiction you may deduce everything

I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.

It is much easier to believe lies than the truth." "Why?" asked Janna. "Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fact that she's a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were stabbed in the back than that they lost a fair fight. And anyone would rather blame someone else for his misfortunes. The truth is hard. Don't fool with it unless you realize that.

Professionalism shouldn't be defined by a persons paycheck, role or title. It should be defined by a persons work ethic

Are you a witch?” asked Janna. “No,” said the old woman, “I’m a Lutheran. But we’ll make do.

His weakness in this game, and in life, is that he's never prepared for how others will act. They are predetermined but too complex to solve or predict, and there are rules that he is just no good at applying.

Do not be obsessed with expensive things. Instead, be obsessed with excellence. Things don't make you excellent. However, excellence will make you expensive.

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

I wear a lot of pink cos' seeing pink activates endorphins and energizes my creativity. It is a colour of femininity and fierceness

Boldness isn't second nature to everyone, it is intentionality

And you don’t gain much in life if you never allow yourself to be vulnerable. Sometimes the best things in life happen when we open our hearts and give someone the opportunity to hurt us, and trust them not to, and they don’t.” “But what if they do?” “Then we learn not to open our hearts to someone like that again,” Janna said quietly. “But we don’t die.

You have a right to be you. It is a privilege for others to be around you.

Don't let people intimidate you into downgrading your goals. They intimidate only because they are intimidated by your goals.

[Team player vs team builder] Players focus on the wins and the loses. Builders focus on the team and future of the vision. Let's move our members from team player to team builder.

...we are the product of this universe and I think it can be argued that the entire cosmic code is imprinted in us. Just as our genes carry the memory of our biological ancestors, our logic carries the memory of our cosmological ancestry. We are not just imposing human-centric notions on a cosmos independent of us. We are progeny of this cosmos and our ability to understand it is an inheritance.

I thought of her as my mother, but rarely of myself as her daughter.

No voice is too soft when that voice speaks for others.

If you have a voice, use it. If you have legs, stand up. If you have feet, step up. If you have eachother, fight together.

There is always a shade of pink for every color because Pink matches everything

We weren't born to create excuses, we were born to create excellence.

Goals and dreams are not purposed to please others. I'd rather be the jester who adds value to those around me than a King with no vision or intention of making a difference.

Telling people what to do is showmanship. Showing people how to do it is leadership.

Being disciplined is a form of self care

Resilience is not about being able to bounce back like nothing has happened. Resilience is your consistent resistance to give up.

It's not harsh to be assertive, its harsher when people take advantage of you

Janna always says that her camera is her gun. And truly, what she’s able to shoot with it is far more powerful than any weapon.

I was ten years old when I first saw the inheritance and twenty years old when I first saw Janna Roslyn, but my reaction to both was identical. I wanted them.

Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn bit better about myself than I did about being Citizen West. Citizen West, Citizen Kane, Sugar Ray Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, Robinson miso, miso soup, black bean soup, black sticky soup, black sticky me. Yeah. Inside I was still a fetid and festering corpse covered in sticky blackness, still mired in putrid shame and scorching self-hatred. I could write an 86-page essay comparing the features of Borderline Personality Disorder with those of Dissociative Identity Disorder, but I barely knew what day it was, or even what month, never knew where the car was parked when Dusty would come out of the grocery store, couldn't look in the mirror for fear of what—or whom—I'd see. ~ Dr Cameron West describes living with DID whilst studying to be a psychologist.

It should never be ME against the world but WE against the world.

When your team member makes a request, take it seriously. Those who make an effort of asking cares about your organisation, those who don't ask don't care.

Great results occur when great responsibility is given. Your job as a leader is to give responsibility NOT take responsibility.

Rephrase the words "staff members" into team members. Because the people in our team are far more than employees, or colleagues. We are a unit!

People don't need to know how good you are. Just smile, just slay and just show.

When your pain gets tough, your game needs to get rough.

The power of the brain is stronger than the pain

Chronic excusers never take responsibility for their actions or accountability for the consequences either. They are under cover narcissists.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

Black holes are a gift, both physically and theoretically. They are detectable on the farthest reaches of the observable universe. They anchor galaxies, providing a center for our own galactic pinwheel and possibly every other island of stars. And theoretically, they provide a laboratory for the exploration of the farthest reaches of the mind. Black holes are the ideal fantasy scape on which to play out thought experiments that target the core truths about the cosmos.

As the blood poured from his tattered heart into the open air and his brain suffocated, all those incomplete thoughts of Wittgenstein decayed with the dying neurons. Neural connections in the gray matter storing memories and ideas in their ordered configurations fired across the gaps, last gaps of mental life. Thoughts on Truth and Will were erased as flesh sloshed soft and limp against alabaster, no more than rotting human fruit.

You have nothing to be ashamed of, beautiful.” “Said the wolf to the lamb,” Janna whispered, feeling embarrassed by her actions. Garrett chuckled. “You are no lamb, but a beautiful, confused she-wolf, who doesn’t understand our ways.” He leaned down, kissing the corner of her mouth. “But I am patient and will give you time.” He picked her up easily and laid her gently on the bed. Janna had to fight herself from grabbing him and begging him to stay with her. “Give me time for what?” “For your human side to catch up with what your wolf already knows.” Garrett’s voice was deep and strong in the quiet room.

We are all caught in the stream of a complicated legacy - a proof of the limits of human reason, a proof of our boundlessness. A declaration that were were down here on this crowded, lonely planet, a declaration that we mattered, we living clumps of ash, that each of us was once somebody, that we strove for what we could never have, that we could admit as much. That was us - funny and lousy and great all at once.

No matter what happens, I want that piece of music to live. When people hear it, I want them to think about what we tried to do, regardless of whether we succeed. And I want them to know that without you, Ana Incarnate, whatever Janna had planned would have just happened without opposition. You opened our eyes. I want that legacy to continue.

Maybe truth is just like that. You can see it, but only out of the corner of your eye. Adele never demands of him any actual conversation. She seems to understand that she is there to keep time and drown out the alarm of more individuated noises. The clink of a pin drop that can fray his nerves, the grinding of gravel beneath the weight of a man on the street, the spike of a dulled conversation as a couple pass beneath his window over Langegasse, the mounting pitch of the conspiratorial exchange as they approach.

fans are just friends and family I haven't met... or wrote about yet

To be committed means to omit all your complaints and carry on doing what needs to be done.

Perfect may not always be pretty but excellence is always elegant.

Don't let other people's template of beauty be your standard. You create your own standard for yourself. Be healthy, and be strong.

Discipline is not about the rules, it is about respect. Its respect for those around you, the things you own and for yourself. Discipline is part of being a steward.

The 'U' goes before 'ME' in Customer.

Systems and rules are guidelines, leadership is lifeline.

A woman with vision is unstoppable, a woman who is always increasing her skills multiplies. Along with passion this woman is undeniable.

I am a Filipino, not a FilipiDont-know. Resourcefullness is in our culture

Yesterday was just the tip of the iceberg of awesomeness. Things will get better. Keep smiling, don't give up just yet. Perseverance has an amazing gift for you, just wait you see.

Eyes are the windows to the soul. A smile is the mirror of the heart

Smile like you are a winner and you will win over people around you. Smile.

Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.

In the brain, Creating excuses is as addictive as drugs. The only way to overcome this is by getting over yourself and doing the hard job.

Excuses and productivity repel eachother.

You can't achieve excellence in life if you fear opinion.

Leadership is not a position. It is who you are.

Having a sense of urgency is good, but ensure to bring an essence of excellence in what you do.

It's great to have opinions, however opinions do better by WORK not by WORD. Don't just say it, show it.

Effective leadership is purely effective listening. There will be problems in any organisation, your job is to actively listen so you can lead solutions.

The old woman snorted. “Knives aren’t magic, girl. All they are is sharp. Cut or don’t, but don’t dither over it. It only makes it worse for both of you.” Janna

A leaders job is to ELEVATE the team, not delegate the team. Elevate your team to take initiative because real leadership is when you can create a culture of self-leadership within your team

Somewhere in the universe two black holes collide — as heavy as stars, as small as cities, literally black (the complete absence of light) holes (empty hollows). Tethered by gravity, in their final seconds together the black holes course through thousands of revolutions about their eventual point of contact, churning up space and time until they crash and merge into one bigger black hole, an event more powerful than any since the origin of the universe, outputting more than a trillion times the power of a billion Suns. The black holes collide in complete darkness. None of the energy exploding from the collision comes out as light. No telescope will ever see the event.

Sure one could argue the naturalist's case that the mind experiences an external reality in which it participates. But how can this account really satisfy us, Olga? One could equally well argue that all experiences is highly subjective, that the only thing we really have is the image, the smell, the taste, and all of our assertions about the universe are constructions of the human mind.

Don't apologize for expressing passion. Don't back down when it comes to your integrity. Don't let anyone undermine your standards for the sake of ease. Be a character of excellence, NOT excuses.

Connection and teamwork are very much intertwined. If you can't connect with a person be a team player. If a person does not show teamwork connect with them. All engagement is centered around relationships

imagine you are an astronaut alone in space. no planets in view. no spacecraft. no distant stars. no source of light. imagine the latent terror, the quiet of space, the strange sensation of floating, the unspeakable dark between wealth of stars.

Joe’s scientific life is defined by these significant near misses… He was Shackleton many times, almost the first: almost the first to see the big bang, almost the first to patent the laser, almost the first to detect gravitational waves. Famous for nearly getting there.

You deserve so much better than me, but that doesn't change the fact that I still want to be with you.

When you turn your problem into passion, your solution becomes success.

Discipline is not about rules. It's about respect. Respect for yourself and others.

Be MORE guest-centric than customer-centric. People treat their guests better than customers. Think relational over Revenue

If they keep bringing up the past, they shouldn't be in your future.

Body language is leadership at first sight

Posture is a leadership language.

Problems don't fix themselves until you fix your attitude

The nature of your work does not have to be the culture of your team.

In leadership, language is everything. Be careful not to use UNDERPerform when a team member MISperforms. One mistake is not under-performance

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent

Apologise for your behaviour, not other's feelings.

Its an honour to be women. Develop women not divide. Compliment not compete. Promote not pull down. Let's work together

It's okay to have a faulty product, it's not okay to have a faulty customer service. We cannot control engineering issues or weather, but we can control how we serve our guests.

Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.

Epic fails are just dramatic pauses to build up intensity of epic awesomeness emerging.

A mirror reflects appearance but only actions reflect beauty

[On doors of opportunity] If that door doesnt open, Dont worry. It was probably best you got locked out than be locked in. Move on the next door.

You are way awesome than you think you are. Don't forget about your awesomeness today

Smile and Slay. You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.

Highly engaged teams have highly engaged leaders. Leaders must be about presence not productivity. Make meetings a no phone zone.

An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass.

I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

Engagement is on task behaviour, Engagement gets the job done. Presence is an emotional behaviour, Presence is the seed for excellence. Don't just engage in your work, be present too.

We as leaders are responsible for changes in our workplace, communities and homes beyond ourselves. We shouldn't just look at the bigger picture, as leaders we should also CREATE the bigger picture.

Janna Malamud Smith, who grew up with the Hyman children during the years her father, Bernard Malamud, taught at Bennington College, writes chillingly in her memoir that the teenaged Sarah Hyman once told her—“explaining to me a view she attributed to her father”—that there was no such thing as rape: “However adamant, female protest was simply foreplay. Women wanted to be forced, and ultimately their excitement made them receptive, no matter what their claim.

Ever since I was 12 years old, my mother have always taught me to learn to be a leader. To start learning now! When you have the time to take time to learn and have every chance to be mentored. Don't be ashamed to be high maintenance when it comes to development.

It took every ounce of self-control I could muster to keep my eyes focused on my work and not on you the entire time. All I could see was the way your nose would shrivel slightly when you laughed... The longing in your eyes for a love like that of the bride and groom.

You should settle for nothing less than a man who loves you for who you are. He shouldn't try to change you. He peeked over the paper. He should love who he becomes when he's with you. All right, she said softly. Is that all? Hardly. I have an entire list. He took a step closer. He should revel in your accomplishments. With every word, his deep voice laid claim to her heart. His heart should be revealed to you through his kindness and his care. He should love you with every part of his being. He should never, ever say a harsh word or glare at you in anger. And, finally Jonathan lifted his eyes to hers he should worship all the bountiful gifts you possess that are uniquely yours. Only that man is worthy of you, Constance Lysander