February 2012
1 post
May 2011
1 post
March 2011
3 posts
1 tag
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without...”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War
5 tags
“Abe Maslow said long ago something you’ve heard before, but you...”
– Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile | Video on TED.com
1 tag
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein
January 2011
2 posts
1 tag
“I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche. Nachlass, Fall 1880 6 [206]
2 tags
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Teddy Roosevelt
December 2010
1 post
1 tag
“Nine women can’t make a baby in one month.”
– Fred Brooks
November 2010
3 posts
1 tag
“The Great Man … is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without respect and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Will to Power”
(via a0)
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
3 tags
“I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
October 2010
1 post
“I don’t know what the hell is going on. Neither do you, and neither does any one...”
– Frank Chimero
August 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“For what, forsooth, shall a Negro want with pride amid the studied humiliations...”
– in The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois; 1903
July 2010
6 posts
1 tag
“To tolerate the existence of the other and to allow him to be different is not...”
– José Saramago
1 tag
verbally impotent (In Plain Sight)
Mary: No silence. I can't take silence right now.
Marshall: Okay. Why aren't you wearing your engagement ring?
Mary: Raph and I broke up. [long pause] I said no silence.
Marshall: Right. So.
Mary: Oh, my God, Marshall. You're killing me.
Marshall: I really don't know what to say.
Mary: Now? Now you don't know what to say? Seven years I get a combo geyser of Wikipedia, Jeopardy, Star Trek, Dead Poet's Society, Carnac the Magnificent and now, the one time I need a steady stream of useless numbing babble I get car sounds!
Marshall: When did you two break up?
Mary: No, no, no! No questions! Anyone can do questions. I want pointless quotes! Useless trivia! The downpour of idiocy you practically patented! Come on! It's a twenty minute car trip. I don't want to think about my life, okay? Amaze me, annoy me, distract me. Is that so much to ask?
Marshall: This is so weird. I got nothing.
Mary: Oh, my God. You're verbally impotent.
Marshall: I swear, this has never happened before.
1 tag
1 tag
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– John Lennon
June 2010
14 posts
1 tag
“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
2 tags
“I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too...”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin
1 tag
2 tags
“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of...”
– Viktor E. Frankl
1 tag
2 tags
“The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don’t care;...”
– Chuck Klosterman, journalist (1972 - )
1 tag
2 tags
“Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles....”
– Abigail Van Buren
2 tags
It's a choice.
We make a difference to other people when we give gifts to them, when we bring emotional labor to the table and do work that matters. It’s hard for me to imagine that this is only available to a few. Yes, the cards are unfairly stacked against too many people. Yes, there’s too many barriers and not enough support. But no, your ability to create and contribute isn’t...
1 tag
1 tag
“Seven deadly sins: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, science...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
1 tag
2 tags
“Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without...”
– George Sand
May 2010
22 posts
1 tag
1 tag
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think...”
– Storm Jameson (1891-1986)
1 tag
1 tag
“I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of...”
– Carolyn Warner
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
1 tag
2 tags
“Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child...”
– from Stack Overflow
3 tags
2 tags
“Thus ended our little talk: yet it left a pleasant impression. True, the subject...”
– Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
1 tag
1 tag
“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...”
– Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
1 tag
4 tags
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable...”
– Edward Gibbon