Vatspy Quotes & Sayings

The sad truth is that many of us are addicted to our phones because we crave immediate approval and affirmation. The fear we feel in our hearts when we are engaged online is the impulse that drives our "highly selective self-representations." We want to be loved and accepted by others, so we wash away our scars and defects. When we put this scrubbed-down representation of ourselves online, we tabulate the human approval in a commodity index of likes and shares. We post an image, then watch the immediate response. We refresh. We watch the stats climb-or stall. We gauge the immediate responses from friends, family members, and strangers. Did what we posted gain the immediate approval of others? We know within minutes. Even the promise of religious approval and the affirmations of other Christians is a gravitational pull that draws us toward our phones. — Tony Reinke

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired. — Stephen King

A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. — Chinua Achebe

Self-justification is the enemy of repentance. — Spencer W. Kimball

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes. — Robert Genn

How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do? — Adam Driver

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation. — Dagobert D. Runes

There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt. — Sue Grafton

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. — Oscar Wilde

When Achilles is most useful and loyal to you, that is when he has most certainly betrayed you? — Orson Scott Card

Like most girls she had been brought up on the warm milk prepared by Annie Fellows Johnston and on novels in which the female was beloved because of certain mysterious womanly qualities, always mentioned but never displayed. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that. — Jerry Yang