Johnson
Johnson
Johnson is a surname of English origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name John, literally meaning "son of John". The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek Ἰωάννης Iōannēs from Hebrew יוחנן Yohanan, meaning "Yahweh has favoured". The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints...
book thinking light
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
jobs motivation character
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
book character years
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
jobs character korea
But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
character thinking self
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
enemy taught needs
All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
captives
What good's a captive without her captor?
people done
But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.
stars dark night
The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.
stories inevitable familiar
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
american-psychologist area
In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.
american-psychologist telling
Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.
chief happiness hope itself
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
expect secret wisdom
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.