May 2012
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“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people do that,...”
– Mark Twain
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“We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t.”
– Franka. Clark
April 2012
7 posts
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“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot”
– Bruce Lee
"Don't Ignore Your Dreams..." →
byalicelee:
This past weekend I was inspired by a quote from PG’s latest essay, /todo.html. So my friend Dan suggested that I make a desktop wallpaper of it with the quote custom illustrated in some way. The passage itself goes:
I would like to avoid making these mistakes. But how do you…
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“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions....”
– Lao Tzu
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“Improvise, Adapt, Overcome”
– Clint Eastwood
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“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
– Thomas Henry Huxley
March 2012
3 posts
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“Once you have something that grows faster than education grows, you’re always...”
– Alan Kay
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T. S. Eliot
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The elm tree and the vine
An extravagant young Vine, vainly ambitious of independence, and fond of rambling at large, despised the alliance of a stately elm that grew near, and courted her embraces. Having risen to some small height without any kind of support, she shot forth her flimsy brunches to a very uncommon and superfluous length; calling on her neighbour to take notice how little she wanted his assistance....
February 2012
8 posts
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“The doubters said,
“Man can not fly,”
The doers aid,...”
– Bruce Lee
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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
– Bruce Lee
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“Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly...”
– Tyler Durden
Inspiration: The Messy Desks Of Einstein, Jobs,... →
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a...”
– Marcus Aurelius
January 2012
3 posts
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About smoking and meditating
Read this somewhere on reddit
Student: Teacher, may we smoke while we meditate?.
Teacher: Of course not! Don't be ridiculous, you are meditating! focus! smoking is nothing but a distraction.
So the student goes quiet for a while, thinking about what the teacher has said.
Student: Teacher, may we meditate while we are smoking?
Teacher: Of course! You may meditate whenever you like! Don't let what you are doing stop you from practicing!
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“Nobody ever changes when they do things they like.”
– Marina Abramovic
December 2011
7 posts
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“A failure is a project that doesn’t work, an initiative that teaches you...”
– Seth godin
WatchPost-Apocalyptic Cover Illustration. Inspiring.
INFLUENCERS →
How Trends & Creativity Become Contagious
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“Visions are worth fighting for.
Why spend your life making
someone else’s...”
– Orson Welles
November 2011
10 posts
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“It blows me away every time I walk into a nice home and meet its proud,...”
– Mark Lauren
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“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten...”
– Swami Vivekananda
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“When people are bored, it is primarily with themselves.”
– Eric Hoffer
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“There aren’t shortcuts.
Merely direct paths.
Most people don’t take them,...”
– Seth Godin
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“When a man knows the solitude of silence, and feels the joy of quietness, he is...”
– Buddha
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“Boyfriend”, the word, is depreciated like old HTML language. It’s such a peasant...”
– Merlin Bronques
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“Sell a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you’ve...”
– Karl Marx
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The Cult of Done Manifesto
How to live your life by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark:
There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
Banish...
October 2011
24 posts
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“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us...”
– Randy Pausch
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“When we travel, we travel not to see new places with new eyes; but that when we...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other...”
– Henry Ford
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“Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Conspicuous consumption
Conspicuous consumption can be defined as “the act of buying a lot of things, especially expensive things that are not necessary, in a way that people notice”.
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“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s
roof, when your...”
– Confucius