September 2011
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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou
August 2011
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“The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic...”
– ~Michael Talbot (via iheartloons)
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“Without reading, there can be no learning.”
– Helen Vendler, “Reading Is elemental” (I like her broad definition of reading: “The natural ways into reading are reading aloud, listening, singing, dancing, reciting, memorizing, performing, retelling what one has read, conversing with others about what has been read, and reading silently.”)
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“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us...”
– Dr. Randy Pausch
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“In the European style it’s about striving, the ‘me life,’ everything about me....”
– Black South African Goes From Never a Sip to Vineyard Fame
Thanks Joanne for highlighting this.
(via zachklein)
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“At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really...”
– Grey’s anatomy
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“If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy...”
– As Steve Jobs steps down, remembering what made him an extraordinary leader with his brilliant 2005 Stanford commencement address about the creative value of dot-connecting and cross-disciplinary curiosity.
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“Most people’s major life regrets are not about the things they’ve done, but...”
– The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann
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“I can’t think of a single reason why I should be a surgeon, but I can think of a...”
– Meredith Grey
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“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
– Walt Disney
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“Pick something and finish it. Close that loop. Release that dopamine.”
– Kent Fenwick: Starting to Finish
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You've got it pretty good.
Pep Talk: Cool things happen to you all the time. You have a life filled with magic and excitement. Overwhelming? Maybe, but you have a lifetime to get used to it.
Today remind yourself: I’ve got it pretty good.
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“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“My Klout score is an 83, which makes me a Thought Leader. There’s a lot of...”
– McSweeney’s list of Ineffective Pick-Up Lines for the Modern Internet Persona
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THE ANGRY THERAPIST: The Power of Purpose →
The Power of Purpose
What if I told you that your life is bigger than you? That you are meant to do / change something. Just humor me. Close your eyes and believe for this second that you were meant to change the world in some way. What happens? If you truly believe this, you will feel valuable. Suddenly, your “problems” aren’t so big. Why? You have just turned your dial from taking...
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“We can’t make superficial analysis of other people’s success and expect to have...”
– Misunderstanding Why Apple Is Successful | TightWind
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“If it’s on the Internet, it’s on the Internet. That which can be copied WILL be...”
– Mike Monteiro
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you...”
– Maya Angelou
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“I’m always surprised by how many people show up to a writing class with no paper...”
– Lynda Barry
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“Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and...”
– Alysha Speer
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“Everything I do, I do it big.”
– Wiz Khalifa: “Black And Yellow”
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“In America there is so much pressure about work, work, work, that it gets into...”
– George Sanders, the actor, not the writer
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“Life is not a contest.”
