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A Messy Desk Is a Sign of Genius, According to Science

The desk was invented around 1200 CE, and while the technology upon it has evolved, the desk itself has remained the same: a flat-surfaced work area accompanied by drawers and cubbies for storage.

Today’s efficiency experts insist that people are more productive when their desk is uncluttered, with “a place for everything and everything in its place.” That’s the thinking behind in- and outboxes.

However, the notion that a clean desk makes you more productive is absurd twaddle. Researchers at the University of Minnesota recently tested how well students came up with new ideas when working in orderly versus disorderly work areas. The study showed:

“Participants in the messy room generated the same number of ideas for new uses as their clean-room counterparts. But their ideas were rated as more interesting and creative when evaluated by impartial judges.”

This connection between a messy desk and productivity is often missed because few people consider the cost of neatness, according to Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman, authors of A Perfect Mess:

“That messiness and disorder can be so useful wouldn’t seem such a counterintuitive notion if it weren’t for the bias towards neatness programmed into most of us. Specifically, people tend to ignore the cost of neatness, discount the possibility that messiness can’t always be excised no matter how hard it’s fought, and trust the idea that mess can work better than neatness.”

Indeed, as I pointed out in a previous column, there are people who obsess about “Inbox Zero.” Geniuses have something better to do than futzing around with filing systems, electronic or otherwise.

The notion that a clean desk means a productive worker is an artifact of the mid-20th century. Historically, geniuses were always pictured with a cluttered desk, as in this 19th-century portrait of 18th-century über-pundit Samuel Johnson:

Back in the day, a clean desk was considered a sign of slothful laziness. Busy people, and smart people didn’t have time to straighten up. Mark Twain, for example, chose to leave his desk cluttered whenever he was photographed:

Albert Einstein famously pointed out that “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” Thomas Edison, who had a famously messy desk, must have agreed. And Steve Jobs. (Click on the names for proof.)

So if your work area, like mine, is usually a mess, it’s time to stop apologizing to the neat-freaks and start feeling good about our ability to prioritize. While our cluttered desks may not prove we’re brilliant, they do show that we might be geniuses.

The opinions expressed here by Inc.com columnists are their own, not those of Inc.com.

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“The Buck Stops Here” Desk sign

The sign “The Buck Stops Here” that was on President Truman’s desk in his White House office was made in the Federal Reformatory at El Reno, Oklahoma. Fred A. Canfil, then United States Marshal for the Western District of Missouri and a friend of Mr. Truman, saw a similar sign while visiting the Reformatory and asked the Warden if a sign like it could be made for President Truman. The sign was made and mailed to the President on October 2, 1945.

Approximately 2-1/2″ x 13″ in size and mounted on walnut base, the painted glass sign has the words “I’m From Missouri” on the reverse side. It appeared at different times on his desk until late in his administration.

The saying “the buck stops here” derives from the slang expression “pass the buck” which means passing the responsibility on to someone else. The latter expression is said to have originated with the game of poker, in which a marker or counter, frequently in frontier days a knife with a buckhorn handle, was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the “buck,” as the counter came to be called, to the next player.*

On more than one occasion President Truman referred to the desk sign in public statements. For example, in an address at the National War College on December 19, 1952 Mr. Truman said, “You know, it’s easy for the Monday morning quarterback to say what the coach should have done, after the game is over. But when the decision is up before you — and on my desk I have a motto which says The Buck Stops Here’ — the decision has to be made.” In his farewell address to the American people given in January 1953, President Truman referred to this concept very specifically in asserting that, “The President–whoever he is–has to decide. He can’t pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That’s his job.

The sign has been displayed at the Library since 1957.

*Mitford M. Mathews, ed., A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1951), I, pages 198-199.

The Deal Desk – Quote to Cash Efficiency

Most leading companies that negotiate complex sales contracts are establishing a “Deal Desk” function to improve both profit margins as well as how deals are structured. Experience has shown that organizations with complex deal structures tend to have a high degree of non-standardized rogue contracts that are difficult to implement operationally as well as from a revenue recognition perspective. The Deal Desk acts as a single point of entry for all contracts when pricing, terms or unique products or services are negotiated. The Deal Desk also coordinates the review process between Legal, Finance and Operations to ensure that deals are structured properly, corporate standards are enforced and government compliance standards are maintained.

The major benefits of establishing a Deal Desk include:

• Improved Customer Relationships
• Sales Rep Productivity
• Margin Improvement
• Improved SOX Controls
• Increased Operational Efficiency
• Benchmarking

When we refer to building a “Deal Desk” function, we are speaking inclusively about a new organizational structure, business workflow definition and automation, key controls as well as policies and procedures for negotiating contracts.  When fully formalized and implemented, the workflow and key controls are integrated throughout the entire Quote to Cash mega-process.

Establishing a Deal Desk function transforms the “Middle Office” of the organization by providing comprehensive sales performance metrics, greater contract visibility and transparency, and drastically reducing Time to Revenue.  Each of these objectives can be achieved while at the same time improving the overall customer buying experience.

Ensuring an excellent customer experience during the sales process requires a great deal of coordination across the Enterprise.  It is extremely important to have a high degree of cooperation between the Sales Organization and the Deal Desk.   The ability for Sales to use Solution Selling techniques that gather detailed customer pain-points and easily convert that information into an accurate quote is critical. Getting the requirements, pricing and internal approvals in a timely manner is central to a quality customer experience.

Sales productivity is critical, especially for fast growth companies.  Sales Reps, Finance, Legal and Operations all need to have a common tool-set that can quickly price, generate a quote, and easily convert that quote into a sales contracts for delivery to the customer.  Regardless of pricing complexities or product / service configurations, these quotes and contracts need to be compliant with all existing agreements, pricing terms, and government regulations.  To accomplish this in an efficient manner, Finance and Legal need to be integrated into the Deal Desk process.

The ability to meet stringent revenue recognition requirements for Sarbanes Oxley compliance is also one of the primary reasons for implementing a Deal Desk. Publicly traded companies that negotiate a wide variety of non-standard contracts find that implementing a Deal Desk is critical to their ability to comply with Gap Accounting standards. This pre-deal review process is often viewed as a means to gain control over how deals are structured so that revenue recognition standards can be maintained. From a contract review perspective, the Deal Desk is critical to consistently handle non- standard contracts, contracts amendments, contract renewals and manage negotiations when new products and services are introduced to the marketplace.

Many organizations have also found that the Deal Desk is an excellent vehicle for tracking pricing and discounting, especially if there is no universal pricing or quotation capability. By increasing discount visibility and actively managing pricing practices upfront in the deal structuring process, the Deal Desk can improve top line revenue. Likewise, by maintaining visibility and control of quotes in the field, margin improvement can be anticipated.

The ability to control world-wide contracts in a single location using a structured workflow is an efficient way of capturing and analyzing potential contracting issues. The Deal Desk function works to create contract templates and business rules that govern and expedite the contract review process. This process increases the number of standard deals over time and hence improves organizational scalability from a Quote to Revenue Recognition perspective. Deal desk also aids in closing the books quickly because non-controlled contracting processes requires a high amount of manual clean-up downstream in Finance and Accounting. Likewise, the Deal Desk enables salespeople to spend more time selling by providing clear rules for structuring deals. Over time, the ability to standardize contracts and improve the deal review process significantly increases organizational scalability.

HBSC Strategic Services has helped numerous Fortune 1000 Clients implement a Deal Desk function as well as other customer-centric process improvements over the past 18 years. The end results were improved customer relationships and sales productivity, appropriate SOX controls, increased margins and significant gains in Quote to Cash efficiency and scalability.  If you are in need of help to implement a Deal Desk function to transform your Quote to Cash process, HBSC Strategic Services can help.  Please contact us at [email protected] or visit our website at www.hbsconsult.com for more information.

Spelling

How to make quotes?

1. The most common way is to use quotation marks.

   “The basic requirements for a quotation are relevance and accuracy. An appropriate quotation is always justified by the goals of the author. ”

2. Emphasis in italics or font 1-2 stops smaller than the main text:

   “The main requirements for a quotation are relevance and accuracy.An appropriate quotation is always justified by the goals of the author. ”

3. Highlighting with a draw quote set. In this case, it is possible to use a striker in the indentation:

   The basic requirements for a quotation are relevance and accuracy. An appropriate quotation is always justified by the goals of the author.

How are highlights within a quote drawn?

Highlights within a quotation can belong to the citing or the author of the quoted text.The way the selected text fragments are decorated depends on this.

Allocations belonging to the cited author are recommended to be kept in the form in which they are printed in the source, and if this is impossible or contradicts the style of the publication, then the author’s emphasis should be replaced with a selection of another type. The ownership of copyright allocations is usually not specified. The exceptions are those cases when the author’s selections are few, and the selections belonging to the citing person, on the contrary, are many; in such cases, it is stipulated that some allocations belong to the cited author (these allocations are marked), and the rest – to the citing author.In addition, in such cases, the belonging of the selection is specially marked in the preface. Allocation example:

Allocations belonging to the citing person are negotiated. The comment is given in brackets, after the comment a full stop, dash and the initials of the commentator are put, for example:

What punctuation marks are used when quoting?

Between the words of the citing person and the following quote:

a) put a colon if the citing words preceding the quotation warn that the quotation follows:

Pasternak wrote: “There is a psychology of creativity, problems of poetics. Meanwhile, of all art, it is its origin that is experienced most directly, and there is no need to speculate about it. “

b) put a full stop if inside the quote or behind it there are words of the citing person, introducing the quote into the text of the phrase:

Pasternak said well about this. “There is a psychology of creativity, problems of poetics. Meanwhile, of all art, it is precisely its origin that is experienced most directly, and there is no need to speculate about it, “he wrote in the” Safeguard “.

c) do not put any signs if the quote acts as an addition or as part of a subordinate clause:

Pasternak wrote that “of all art, it is its origin that is experienced most directly.”

At the end of the phrase after the quotes closing the quote:

a) put a period if there are no characters in front of the closing quotation marks. If the quote is immediately followed by a link to the source, then the point is moved beyond the link:

BL Pasternak emphasized: “The most clear, memorable and important thing in art is its appearance, and the best works of the world, telling about the most diverse, actually tell about their birth” (Pasternak 2000, 207).

Attention! The period is always placed after the closing quotation marks, but not before them. The ellipsis, question mark, and exclamation mark are placed before the closing quotation marks.

b) put a full stop if the quote is not an independent sentence, but acts as part of a subordinate clause (even if there is an ellipsis, a question or exclamation mark before the closing quotes):

BL Pasternak emphasized that “the clearest, most memorable and important thing in art is its appearance… “.

c) do not put any signs if there is an ellipsis, a question or exclamation mark in front of the closing quotation marks, and the quote enclosed in quotation marks is an independent sentence (such, as a rule, are all quotations after a colon, separating them from the citing words preceding them):

The chapter ends with the words: “Goodbye philosophy, goodbye youth, goodbye Germany!”

If the phrase does not end with a quote, then a comma is placed after the quote (if the quote is part of an adverbial phrase or ends the first part of a complex sentence) or a dash (if the quote ends with an ellipsis, exclamation mark or question mark, and also if, according to the context, separate the subsequent text with a comma not necessary).

After a poetic quotation, a punctuation mark is placed at the end of the verse line, which refers to the entire text with the quotation.

Does the quote always start with a capital letter?

A quote begins with an uppercase (capital) letter in the following cases:

• When a citing person starts a sentence with a quote, even if the opening words are omitted in the quote and it opens with an ellipsis:
  

  “… Of all art, it is its origin that is experienced most directly, and there is no need to speculate about it,” Pasternak wrote.

• When a quote comes after the words of the citing person (after a colon) and begins a sentence in the source:
  

  Pasternak wrote: “Meanwhile, of all art, it is its origin that is experienced most directly, and there is no need to speculate about it.”
  

  But:

  Pasternak wrote: “… of all art, it is its origin that is experienced most directly, and there is no need to speculate about it.” Pasternak wrote that “… there is no need to speculate about him.”
  

How can an inline bibliographic reference be made when citing?

If the cited source is indicated in the bibliography or in the list of references, at the end of the quotation only the name of the author and the year of publication of the book are indicated. This design method saves space. For example:

in text:

in the list of references:

Ozhegov 2001 – S. I. Ozhegov. Dictionary of the Revolutionary Era. Historical and cultural reference (Preliminary sketches). – 1920s // Dictionary and culture of Russian speech: To the 100th anniversary of the birth of S. I. Ozhegov. M .: Indrik, 2001 .– 560 p. S. 410-412.

(Based on the book:
A. E. Milchin, L. K. Cheltsova. Publisher and author’s guide. M., 2003.)

Quotes that every woman should read

On Women’s Equality Day “Gazeta.Ru ”has chosen the main quotes about women, which show what they really think in this world.

Women’s Equality Day is celebrated on 26 August, pioneered by feminist and political activist Bella Abzug in 1971. In honor of such a holiday, Gazeta.Ru selected 25 main quotes about women, which, of course, show how much women are better than men.

1. “When they write that the name of a historical hero who performed a feat is unknown, as a rule they mean a woman.”Virginia Woolf, writer

2. “Being a woman is very difficult, mainly because they have to deal with men all the time.”
Joseph Conrad, writer

3. “Behind every idiot, too, there is always a great woman.” John Lennon, singer

4. “If you want to be told something, ask a man, but if you want something to be done, you need to call a woman.”
Margaret Thatcher, politician

5. “A woman should, in spite of everyone, live her life as she wants, or she will have to admit that she did not live at all.” David Lawrence, writer

6. “A woman who knows how to feel passion does not need cosmetics.”
Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer

7. “The problem with some women is that at first they get very aroused because of nothing, and then they marry nothing.”
Cher, singer

8. “A woman first tries to change a man for 10 years, and then complains that he is not what he was when she married him.”
Barbara Streisand, actress

9. “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help women.”
Madeleine Albright, politician

10. “A woman becomes a full-fledged person only when someone loves her.”
Alexandre Dumas, writer

11. “A woman cannot be defeated. If you don’t like trouble, you won’t try. ”
William Faulkner, writer

12. “You cannot enjoy a woman if you try to understand her.”
Freddie Mercury, singer

13. “Women who only know how to love are boring. Much more interesting are those who also know how to hate “Oscar Wilde, writer

14. “To be successful, a woman must think like a queen. The Queen is not afraid of failure and is not afraid to sacrifice other people’s lives. ”
Oprah Winfrey, TV Presenter

15. “Because of emancipation, women have lost their main feature – mystery.”
Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco

16. “If a man thinks that he has defeated a woman, then he is just a fool and did not notice how she beat him two moves ago.”
Gary Oldman, actor

17. “If women knew how to understand male characters, they would never get married.” George Bernard Shaw, writer

18. “Women who are just trying to be equal with men have little ambition.” Marilyn Monroe, actress

19. “The women threw all their strength into the struggle for equality, but then they got distracted and began to fight to reduce the size of their own clothes.”
Pink, singer

20. “Women’s courage is expressed in curiosity. Men are often not curious because they lack the courage to do so. ”
Victor Hugo, writer

21. “No one should ever see you cry or fold your arms over your chest. These are signs of weakness that men love but do not forgive. ”
Helen Mirren, actress

22. “A woman can make a man softer, she can make him weaker and can decide for herself what to do with him.This is why she is scary. ”
Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst

23. “Women are not born, you can become one only with time.”
Simone de Beauvoir, writer

24. “A woman who believes that only a man can fill her life with meaning has not tried to work.” Princess Diana

25. “Women are often afraid to say what they want. That is why they don’t get what they want. ”
Madonna, singer

“Beware of a leader who beats the drums of war to arouse patriotism in citizens, for patriotism is a two-edged sword that not only invigorates the blood, but also narrows the mind.When the drums beat feverishly, the blood boils with hatred, and the mind is closed – there is no need to deprive citizens of their rights, on the contrary, they themselves, frightened and blinded by patriotism, will joyfully refuse them. How do I know this? This is exactly what I did. And I am Caesar ”- these words first appeared in late 2001 in forums devoted to discussing the attack on the World Trade Center towers and the subsequent adoption of the Patriot Act, which gave the FBI and police the right to wiretap and spy on US citizens.The quote went viral instantly, spreading across social media, political columnists, and the blogs of government-controlled privacy fighters. Many who published the quote were convinced that it was taken from Shakespeare’s tragedy “Julius Caesar”, but neither in this play, nor in general in the corpus of Shakespeare’s texts, there are no such words. Moreover, researchers of ancient texts argue that nothing like this is found either in the speeches of Caesar, or in the texts associated with him. Most likely, the quote was invented by one of the forum users and attributed to the great playwright for the sake of weight.

“Great people tend to be relevant at all times. So I will repeat after Shakespeare: “Beware of a leader who beats the drums of war to arouse patriotism in citizens, for patriotism is a double-edged sword that not only invigorates the blood, but also narrows the mind. reason is closed – there is no need to deprive citizens of their rights, on the contrary, they themselves, frightened and blinded by patriotism, will joyfully renounce their rights.How do I know this? This is exactly what I did. And I am Caesar “”

Zorinskaya “Quote” appeared in 1985, and a year later P. Chomsky brought it almost grotesquely to the stage of the Mossovet Theater. A. Nemzer, in his review of the collection Towards the Curtain of the Millennium, which united Zorin’s plays of 1985-2000, wrote: could become the “necessary and sufficient” repertoire of some – also, of course, ideal – troupe…. So, the theater. Where dizzying (and nagging) comedies are played. Not only in prose, but also – listen! listen! – in verse. On the most “newspaper” material: feminism and elections in the county town (“Union of Lonely Hearts”), intellectual complexes and cunning wisdom of sociology (“Maniac”), “ruler of thoughts” in the era of “foundations” and PR (” Luzgan “). Or about the past that died, but – according to the explosive “quote” from the play of the same name – holds the “new” with a bulldog’s grip, which lacks the strength to be really alive.A theater of “lost” and suddenly found “plots” that get an outwardly unexpected, in fact predictable, but no less unfortunate “denouement”.

For Chomsky, “Quote” is one of the most significant in the Moscow Soviet, in the theater it is associated with “the restoration of a poetic satirical comedy on the national stage.” “I have worked in more than one theater. And in each of them there were favorite performances. The Mossovet Theater has two of the most successful – “The Brothers Karamazov” and the comedy “Quote” based on the play by Leonid Zorin.The latter had a wonderful ensemble of actors: Leonid Markov, Ira Muravyova and other good actors. The play was shown on television. If Markov had not died, we would have played him today. Zorin successfully “caught” such a satirical note, which sounds interesting even now, ”he said in an interview.

Performer of one of the main roles E. Steblov in the book “Against whom are you friends?” recalled how “not without success he played on the stage of the Theater. Mossovet role of Molochnikov. A sort of provincial Komsomol careerist, storming the capital’s nomenklatura pedestals, the future of the “new Russian”.So Anton Molochnikov, who is recommended as a young specialist, an economist, enters the service in a certain institution, where on the same day Ivan Lukich Bobrov (N. Parfenov) is escorted to retirement. The head of the department, Kirill Petrovich Baltazarov (L. Markov), delivers a pretty, but not without flamboyance, speech, into which he turns one of his favorite phrases – “To a living brake – dead flesh.” Infuriated by her, Molochnikov tries to find authorship (it turns out that this “slogan” adorns the chief’s office). And nobody remembers.Rumors of an unknown quote get to a higher management – and a mess begins. Suddenly someone undesirable dropped it (“and since he had time to move from the chair to another place, how is your Ivan Lukich Bobrov …”)? What the simpleton Molochnikov asked without a distant thought is absolutely impossible to believe, so two days are given to remember the author. This is a turning point. If Baltazarov “is already drowning in valokordin,” then his daughter Lyudmila (I. Muravyova) Molochnikov, who has looked after him, decides to play a profitable game: he will find out the author and for that he will marry a lively girl, increasing his status.

A sitcom is played out against the backdrop of moving walls and meeting tables that suddenly converge towards the center of the stage, clutching the one who is currently playing the loser. When the doors of the department are opened, there is a car “on the street” – unthinkable for the provincial Molochnikov, who suffers from complexes, but it is on it that he will eventually ascend up the career ladder with his new wife. Now Molochnikov makes it clear to his friend Andrei Orlyuk (A. Goloborodko), who was fostering it at first, that the balance of power has changed.The hierarchical inertia of the society of gray suits is violated by the informal Orlyuk with a well-hung tongue and Molochnikov, but he only because, due to poverty, he wears a gray suit with sneakers. The functionaries come out in a line and leave the stage. And later Chomsky will repeat, slightly changing, the formation of Baltazarov’s house, when Baltazarov, who is inconsolable from unsuccessful searches for the source of the damned quotation, as if observing a comic hierarchy here, is followed by Alevtina Vasilievna’s wife (V. Talyzina) and the housekeeper. All three are now in blue tracksuits with the inscription “USSR” on their backs.

Against this background, one eerie reference to the leader of the peoples (“cadres decide, only cadres”), then to anti-alcohol campaigns (“Once upon a time we would have drunk boldly for this business,” says Baltazarov and after a suspended pause he concludes – ” Now times are different ”). Baltazarov, it seems, has caricatured the features of the general secretaries of recent years, historical allusions are added here to a series of characteristic characters, types of the era.

“Quote” itself is a treasure trove of quotes that sound young after years.Milkmen mumbles at first about “became his own in such spheres.” Retired on retirement, Bobrov boasts of being “still a chick, still a prankster, but went to work as on a holiday,” adding: “Serve! There is no higher happiness. ” And the statement ends with the words of Orlyuk, who leaves the stage as a hero-reasoner: “Everything is so – the tenacious carrion. But for the time being! ”

The work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry about the Little Prince to this day makes many people think about simple life values.The popularity of the allegorical tale-tale is confirmed by the record number of translations into hundreds of languages ​​of the world, including Latin. The book has about 140 million copies. Quotes from the Little Prince do not lose their relevance to this day. They relate to the burning topics of any developed society: love, friendship, responsibility, loneliness. Some of these phrases have long been aphorisms. “We are responsible for those who have tamed …”, “There is no perfection in the world!” Is a vivid example of this.

Many clever philosophical thoughts are concentrated in the fairy tale.For those who have not read this wise and touching story for a long time, we have selected some quotes from the main characters that give us the opportunity to look at the world around us warmer and friendlier.

Quotes The Little Prince

• I wonder why the stars shine. Probably, so that sooner or later everyone could again find their
• The eyes are blind. Search with the heart
• You should never listen to what the flowers say. You just have to look at them and breathe their aroma.My flower gave a fragrance to my entire planet, but I did not know how to rejoice at it
• This was my Fox before. He was no different from a hundred thousand other foxes. But I made friends with him, and now he is the only one in the whole world
• You are beautiful, but empty. I don’t want to die for you
• Do you know why the desert is so good? Somewhere there are springs hiding in it

quotes fox

• There is no perfection in the world!
• Only the heart is sharp-sighted.You will not see the most important thing with your eyes
• People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy clothes ready-made in stores. But after all, there are no such shops where they would trade with friends, and therefore people no longer have friends
• You are forever responsible for the one you tamed
• Words only interfere with understanding each other

Other quotes

• It is much more difficult to judge yourself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise
• All adults were children at first, only few of them remember about it
• It’s good where we are not
• Adults never understand anything themselves, and it is very tiring for children to endlessly explain and explain everything to them

QUOTE – an excerpt from a literary work, cited verbatim. The quotation is given either for the sake of documentary accuracy, or for the sake of its expressiveness. The first goal is realized mainly in scientific works, the second – in works of art and in the community. The expressiveness of a quotation, in turn, may depend on its inherent meaning or on those connections that are established with the quoted context.The first kind of expressiveness is, for the most part, the expressiveness of the maxim: such are all the quotations-proverbs from Krylov’s fables (“this is a pike, you have science”), quotations-sayings from “Woe from Wit” (“Everybody is lying calendars”). Their connection with the context is erased over time, leaving behind them an independent meaning. In this area, the author’s ingenuity manifests itself in the choice of the most vivid expression for the quote.

The second kind of expressiveness of a quotation (due to its connection with the context) requires the ability to choose from the cited author precisely those words that most reflect his entire attitude, the most closely related to the entire cited work.Such is the well-known given in the verses of Vl. Solovyov’s quotation-paraphrase from Lermontov: “Eyes full of azure fire” (in Lermontov: “Eyes full of azure fire”), a quote in which, due to the connection with the context, the whole world of Lermontov’s eroticism is hidden.

The artistic possibilities of quotation are manifested not only in the choice of the quoted words, but also in their corresponding use: so, on the one hand, the quotation acquires special expressiveness due to the connection with the quoted text, on the other hand, a reference to the quoted author or work would be inappropriate in artistic creation, sounding like prose, the author’s task here is to emphasize the connection, but avoid direct reference.We find examples of this technique in V. Bryusov: 1) in the poem “Treason” the words: “gloomy and dim fire of voluptuousness” sound a somewhat modified quote from Tyutchev – the connection of the quotation with the world of Tyutchev’s poetry is emphasized by the mention of Tyutchev’s name in one of the preceding lines; 2) in the poem “Mon rêve familier” the line “you are with me again, dreams of my creation ” is preceded by an epigraph from Lermontov “I love my creation,” which establishes a connection between the quotation and the images of Lermontov’s poetry.

Valentina Dynnik. Literary encyclopedia: Dictionary of literary terms: In 2 volumes / Edited by N. Brodsky, A. Lavretsky, E. Lunin, V. Lvov-Rogachevsky, M. Rozanov, V. Cheshikhin-Vetrinsky. – M .; L .: Publishing house of L. D. Frenkel, 1925

Quotes, aphorisms, sayings, phrases, statuses in contact

The best things happen unexpectedly.

You are not like everyone else, you are much deeper. You have an ocean inside, and someone has puddles

Only he is capable of being kind, who had to howl from anger.
Only he knows the value of friendship, who experienced betrayal of friends.
And love is given only to those who know hatred in full.

If it’s hard for you, then you are going uphill. If it is easy for you, then you are flying into the abyss.

Henry Ford

Life cannot be changed overnight. But overnight, you can change thoughts that will change your life forever.

I will not tell you what friendship means,
It seems to me that words are superfluous here.
You just ask me what you need,
And I will come when others do not come.

Three things never come back – Time; Word; Possibility.
Therefore: Don’t waste time, Choose your words, Don’t miss the opportunity.

You should not mistake kindness for weakness, rudeness for strength, and meanness for the ability to live.

Nothing in this life comes easy. To achieve your goals, you need to make certain sacrifices – to waste your energy, time, limit yourself in anything.Sometimes there are times when you want to give up everything and give up your dream. At times like this, remember how much you will gain if you move on and how much you will lose if you give up. The cost of success is usually less than the cost of failure.

If the loser smiles, the winner loses the taste of victory.

A man died. His dog lay down next to him and also died. And here the soul of a person stands in front of the gate with the inscription “Paradise” and next to it is the soul of a dog.There is an inscription on the gates: “No dogs allowed!” The man did not enter these gates, he passed by. They walk along the road, the second gate, on which nothing is written, only the elder sits next to it.
– Sorry, dear …
– I’m Peter.
– What is behind these gates?
– Paradise.
– Can I go with a dog?
– Of course!
– And there, before, what is the gate?
– Into Hell. Only those who do not abandon their friends reach paradise …

7 wonders of the world – 1 – to see, 2 – to hear, 3 – to feel, 4 – to speak, 5 – to think, 6 – to rejoice, 7 – to love.

The day comes, the hour comes,
And you understand: everything is not eternal!
Life teaches us heartlessly
That time is fleeting.
The fact that we need to appreciate everything,
Take care of everything that is given to us.
After all, life is like a thin thread,
It sometimes breaks suddenly …

Actually, life is simple, but we persistently complicate it.

Confucius

Millions of people will not replace you.
Never.

Vladimir Ponkin “Your voice”

It is foolish not to communicate with a person who is dear to you. It doesn’t matter what happened. It may not be at any moment. Can you imagine? Forever and ever. And you won’t get anything back.

A girl’s heart is never empty … Either she is in love, or she cannot forget.

Nobody appreciates too much.

Colin McCullough “The Thorn Birds”

My “love” is very expensive.I say this rarely and to few people.

Vladimir Vysotsky

Reason is powerless before the cry of the heart.

Albert Camus “The Myth of Sisyphus”

We love, but we pretend that we do not care. We are indifferent, but we pretend that we love.

Well, I don’t change because of every idiot.

What is the difference between “Like” and “Love”? When you like a flower, you pick it.But if you love a flower, you water it daily.

What kind of love does not exist in life, but you cannot love the same two times.

Most of all I would like to get into your head and find out who I really am to you.

You are making a huge mistake when you trust some people.

You can love all your life. Fall out of love on Thursday.

Every little thing can serve as your inspiration.

It is impossible to defeat the one who does not give up.

Money also suffers, because they do not have me.

Everything will come true, you just have to get sick.

Faina Ranevskaya

I don’t leave, it’s just that sometimes I don’t …

Erich Maria Remarque. Borrowed life

Doubt anyone but yourself.

Never hope that someone else will change. Change must always start with yourself.

Osho

you are so absent that you are everywhere.

Vyacheslav Prakh

The discouraged dies prematurely.

The brightest moments pass away so quickly and irrevocably.

The Great Gatsby

I wanted to spit on the black and white stripes of life.I go on my own. Purple!

The essence of life is to find yourself.

Muhammad Iqbal

The heart can only be healed with the heart.

Vladimir Vinogradov

A cat will never make friends with someone who is not able to love her. Cats are never wrong about people.

Amos Oz, “My Michael”

– Darling, yes I want anything for you: through a storm and a hurricane! I’ll move the mountains! In general, wait – I’ll come tomorrow.If it doesn’t rain.

It is not enough to love a person, We must understand him, We must live his life, Breathe with him. Hearing sometimes what cannot be said. It is not enough to find it, The main thing is not to lose it …

Whoever wants little is cheap.

Maxim Gorky

Do not listen to those who have not achieved anything themselves! Set yourself impossible goals, achieve them …

The world is interesting.If you say “thank you”, they will say “thank you” to you. If you smile, they will smile at you.
All good things begin with you.

Trusting a person unconditionally, you end up with one of two things: either a person for life, or a lesson for life.

Years will pass, anyone will understand, and this will not change: the more you sacrifice yourself, the less it is valued …

… and even though it was over, something new began.

Bret Easton Ellis. Lunar Park

“Do you remember? ..” Over the years this question flashes more and more often, becoming more and more touching and more and more sad.

Yuri Polyakov, “I have conceived an escape …”

All your life you have been waiting for a meeting with Someone who will understand you and accept you for who you are. And at the very end you discover that this Someone is always with you. And this is yourself.

Richard Bach

The events that we attract into our life, no matter how unpleasant they may be for us, are necessary in order for us to learn what we must learn.

For women’s tears, we need a pillow for women’s holidays – flowers, but for me I need a girlfriend, as cool as you!

Working on yourself changes relationships, changes destiny, changes life.

If you look at the minuses in life through your raised middle finger, they will be pluses.

Eminem

It’s very sad when friends are forgotten …

Antoine de Saint-Exupery.”The Little Prince”

You cannot pay for something that has no price. Some argue that every, absolutely every thing in the world has its own price. It is not true. There are things that have no price, they are priceless. The easiest way to recognize them: if you just lose them, and that’s it – they are already lost forever.

(c) Andrzej Sapkowski “Baptism in Fire”

Appreciate moments before they become memories.

Surround yourself only with people who will pull you higher.Life is already full of those who want to drag you down.

A year could pass between her question and my answer.

Chuck Palahniuk

Do not imitate others. Find yourself and remain yourself, because “envy is ignorance” and “imitation is suicide.”

Dale Carnegie

Age is just a number. It does not define a person’s mind and outlook on life. It all depends not on the years lived, but on the circumstances experienced in life.

Your own is what is yours.

– The pain sometimes goes away, but the thoughts remain.

1 + 1 / Untouchable

Girlfriend. I don’t know how you put up with me. But thank you.

You need to be able to leave on time. So that after you leave, they sighed not with relief, but with regret.

I’m not jealous. I guard my happiness …

– Do you have scars?
– I am completely covered by them.
– But I don’t see one ?!
– Just look into my soul.

Brains, of course, are not visible, but when they are not enough, it is noticeable.

Imagine what the silence would be if people only said what they know.

Karel Chapek

I just look like an elk, but at heart I am a butterfly.

Smeshariki

The main thing is to believe in yourself.The opinions of others change daily.

It doesn’t matter how many sunsets and sunrises we meet together. What matters is what they will be.

Expectation kills most of all – at these moments you manage to wind yourself up a lot of unnecessary things.

With you, I am home.

I’m at home with you.

Think about what can make you happy. Do what you like.Be with people with whom you feel good and only go where they are waiting for you.

Feel free to be human.

If a person does not understand your dreams, he is not your person.

Dmitry Grinberg

– People drift away. Deal with it.

One of the hardest things in life is to keep words in your heart that you can’t say.

James Earl Jones

The best feeling is when you realize that you are damn happy without the people you thought you needed.

Real friends do not compete with each other and do not envy, but help and sincerely rejoice for each other …

– The world is not a factory for the fulfillment of desires.

The Fault in the Stars

I love rain – it brings with it the smell of the sky …

(c) Makoto Shinkai

In general, it seems to me that too strong emotions burn something in a person.If you loved too much, then you will not be able to love anymore.

Harry Garrison. Birth of a steel rat

Whatever happens, everything is fine.

Zen

Once you’ve started, win.

What you are looking for is also looking for you.

Rumi

I do not live in this world to live up to your expectations.

I think about you so much that I even wonder where the time for everything else comes from.This is because everything else is also you in some way.

Veniamin Kaverin “Two Captains”

One should appreciate people for their actions, now everyone has learned to speak beautifully.

It is better to live with your beloved one night than with your unloved all your life.

Veselin Georgiev

– The past cannot be lived that long.

The Double Life of Charlie Sun Cloud

Every day, communicating with different people, you are surprised that the most worthy of them are alone.

They are distinguished by charisma, good looks, a lively analytical mind, good upbringing and manners, behind which a strong look is always hidden, in which a slight sadness is hardly visible. They are looking for “their” people: for communication, for company and pleasant rest, for love, for relationships and family. They make mistakes more often, suffer more, make contact less often, and experience failures harder. But each time, when they burn to the ground in a relationship, they are reborn from the ashes, becoming even more perfect and stronger.And again, and again, start all over again. They are alien to the stereotypes of modern society, it is impossible to impose someone else’s opinion on them. Regardless of whether it is a man or a woman, they are looking for such a person, next to whom it will be warm and calm. And this “calm” is not based on the absence of quarrels, adrenaline or extreme edges of emotion. This “calm” means that there is a person nearby who will not betray. A person whom you have infinite faith, trust and in whom you are 100% sure.

In time, everything will be fine.Anything can happen to us.

Appearance depends not on clothes, not on hairstyle and not even on makeup …
Appearance depends on what song the soul sings …

Someone says that a girl cannot be both beautiful and smart. Why do I have to choose what type of woman I am? Why should I label myself? I just like being myself

Beyonce

Real beauty lives in the heart, is reflected in the eyes and manifests itself in actions.

Osho

These feelings from the past sometimes come back to me. Together with the then sound of rain, the then smell of wind …

Haruki Murakami. Dance, dance, dance

Every day has its own miracle.

What difference does it make if there is a female friendship, a male friendship, or a friendship between a man and a woman? It so happens that there is nothing without a person. It doesn’t matter what gender or height you are.The closeness of souls, that’s what happens. The rest doesn’t matter.

There are 2 types of people
Some are ready to lie, throwing dust in their eyes,
Others will never substitute friends
Will not speak for themselves, will not suffocate in return.

Max Korzh – 2 types of people

Only I know what I can.

I’m not actively searching – I have everything. And what is not – then it is not necessary yet.

Everyone is so afraid of becoming nothing in this life that they become just anyone.

To suspect is worse than to know. Reality has boundaries, imagination doesn’t.

If you chop wood yourself, you will be warmed by it twice.

Henry Ford

Happiness – when unsaid words
Someone hears with his heart and understands everything.

Vyacheslav Ivanov

Love is always one, not a shot, not a sigh, Love is when good people feel bad …

Dumps – Jim

I dream of becoming a boomerang.You are thrown, and you are thrown back at them, in the face.

Frederic Beigbeder. Romantic egoist

Very often the best medicine is to do without it.

Hippocrates

If you knew how rarely we are understood correctly, you would be more silent.

Goethe

Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness, bitch.

Life does not have to give us what we expect.We must take what she gives and be grateful for the fact that this is so, and not worse.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell

What you believe in becomes your world.

Richard Matheson, “What Dreams May Come”

If there is light in your heart, you will find your way home.

Don’t write, don’t call? Do not worry everything is good.

They are doing well, that’s why they don’t call.

A person is least like himself when he speaks on his own behalf. Give him a mask and he will tell the whole truth.

Oscar Wilde

The only difference between a good and a bad day is your attitude towards it.

The colder and darker the darkness outside, the more comfortable the warm soft light in the apartment seems. And if summer is the time to run away from home towards the pipe dreams of a teenage soul, then autumn is the time to return.

Al Quotion

… We rush about: work, life, business.
Whoever wants to hear must still listen.
And on the run … you will only notice the bodies …
Stop to see the soul …

All the values ​​a person dreams of are hidden inside him …

I will never let back into my life those people who left it of their own accord …

Forgive – yes.To forget – never.

Where there is no danger, there can be no glory.

You can’t handle me even if you have instructions.

What you call love, I call you a good mood. If you feel a little bad (disagreements at home, business, heat) – I no longer exist.

Marina Tsvetaeva

The best way to start the day well is to wake up and think if it is possible to bring joy to at least one person today.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If God has a plan for me, then let Him come down here and explain what it is … because I don’t know!

Alpha Dog

There are minutes in which you can give up months and years.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Stay away from negative people. They see a problem in every solution.

To be able to enjoy a life you have lived means to live twice.

Martial

I am one of those who love in silence, endure for a long time and leave abruptly!

– Learn to choose your thoughts as you choose clothes in the closet every day.

Sometimes even the best friends don’t need you, because something more important than friendship happens in their life.

Dream great: only great dreams can touch human souls.

Marcus Aurelius

When you need support, at this moment you are usually not needed by anyone. But in fact, nobody needs you all the time. You just notice it only when you need support.

I absolutely don’t give a damn about those who don’t like me. But I don’t give a damn about those who care about me.

Missing someone is the most beautiful of all sad feelings.

Maria Parr

I am an ordinary person with ordinary thoughts and have lived a very ordinary life. They will not erect a monument to me, my name will soon be forgotten, and yet I have known love, and this is enough for me.

(c) Nicholas Sparks “The Notebook”

Human Laziness Fact # 212682340236: You are too lazy to read this number.

Why do guys younger than me like me? Because I am kind, and children feel it.

Life requires movement.

Aristotle

One must always be joyful. If the joy ends, look for where you went wrong.

Leo Tolstoy

A friend is one soul living in two bodies.

Let idiots and clowns out of your life.
The circus must be on tour!

F. Ranevskaya

The keys to happiness are dreams that have come true.

Nicholas Sparks

Brevity is the sister of a lack of vocabulary.

You want to say whatever you want, but your actions show your true attitude.