January 2011
26 posts
“Pursue excellence, ignore success”
– Deepak Chopra (via jameslano)
Money devoid of genuine empathy is like salt...
eyesinpositive:
MLK
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men...
Carl Zimmer on Progress
youmightfindyourself:
Thirty linear steps take you to 30. Thirty exponential steps take you to a billion.
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out...”
– François de La Rochefoucauld (via withnailrules)
“The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery....”
– Atisha (via sophiabequiet)
Nice People Take Drugs. That’s the name of a... →
eyesinpositive:
Nice People Take Drugs.
have used illicit drugs.
I first heard about the campaign when I received a call from someone at Release who was coming to New York and other U.S. cities to take photos of Americans holding up signs with the text “Nice People Take Drugs.” These photos of ordinary people identifying as drug users were also snapped in other cities around the world.
The...
“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very...”
– Elie Wiesel (via libraryland)
“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”
– Ray Bradbury (via liquidnight)
“Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.”
– Thomas Carlyle (via guptaxpn)
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WatchScott Belsky: How to Avoid the Idea Generation Trap
Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by Bruce Mau →
edenhovenga:
bruce mau <3
1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them. 2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good....
Open Letter to my Disgruntled Students
“So, I got over myself and realized that if we spend our entire lives doing only the things we know we’re good at, or only the things that make us comfortable, we’ll grow about as fast as does a glacier.”
Another “reblog.” This one originating from an academic adviser’s WordPress.
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“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven...”
– “Andrea del Sarto” by Robert Browning
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WatchIn the tradition of reblogging, (in this case a quite literal take on the term) I figured this documentary prompts an introduction to your dashboards and possibly the rest of the tumblr world.
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
– Neil Gaiman (via quote-book)
