August 2011
1 post
“Steamboats insult the dignity of distance.”
– Proust
July 2011
11 posts
“Principles are substitutes for an independent outlook. The owner would be lost...”
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life...”
– One of the most impactful books I have read.
Vicktor E. Frankl : Man’s Search for Meaning
menbat:
Wugazi: Sweet Release
Why does this...
Finished a wonderful ride home with this song at...
“The professional turns down roles that he’s done before. He’s not afraid of them...”
“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”
– Muhammad Ali
“The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.”
– If everything was fair, life would be pretty boring… I enjoyed the first half of the book this came from… but it was too wordy and could have been an amazing blog post. I hope kindle will allow authors/publishers to stop worrying about having enough pages to justify a hard cover…...
“Employees ASK, Entrepreneurs ACT!”
– Decide who you want to be, it doesn’t matter whether you work for yourself or a global megacorp. It’s a state of mind.
“Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet’s survival? Of course...”
“The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the...”
– It’s hard to admit sometimes that often the people closest to us don’t want us to succeed. Or the other way, inside we really don’t want the people close to us to succeed. It’s hard to be left behind, or leave others behind. The best thing you can do is move forward and show...
June 2011
5 posts
“We shall not cease from exploration
And at the end of our exploring
Will be to...”
– Sometimes you don’t realize that you are back at the start until you keep moving a little further down one of the roads you have already travelled on. Once the realization hits you think why did it take so long to get back to where I started, this quote made it feel ok to me.
“You can never step into the same river twice, because the second time you have...”
– This prompted me to write a 5 page blog post I will never publish. The kind of writing that helps you crystalize something that been building inside for a while…feels good.
December 2009
1 post
“Never mind what’s been selling,
It’s what you’re buying
and...”
– Fugazi ~ Blueprint