February 2012
2 posts
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
– Winston Churchill
When you read this sentence to yourself, it’s likely that you hear the words in...
– Telepathy machine reconstructs speech from brainwaves - health - 31 January 2012 - New Scientist (via wildcat2030)
January 2012
11 posts
Even though the data around productivity has proved pretty remorseless, humans...
– The Truth About Sleep & Productivity | Inc.com (via infoneer-pulse)
There as a study in which it comes out that thirty of the largest companies in...
– Massachusetts Senate candidate ELIZABETH WARREN, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
The big question for universities going forward is this: Can control of...
– The Great Unbundling of the University - Alan Jacobs - Technology - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to...
– Aldous Huxley
Piracy is not going to be solved by the heavy hand of the law. As far as...
– SOPA is the equivalent of smashing the Gutenberg press – Telegraph Blogs (via infoneer-pulse)
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey...
– Marcel Proust (via mirroir)
Our lives are temporal. Time passes, and with that our lives. Dissolving into...
– ESPEN HAMMER - On Modern Time
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the...
– Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace (via zenhabits)
Most good things happen without a plan: friendships, falling in love, finding a...
– » How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal) :zenhabits (via bijan)
Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the...
– Bruce Lee - On Limits
When society equates maleness with a constant desire for sex, men are socialized...
– Jill Filipovic, from “Offensive Feminism: The Conservative Gender Norms That Perpetuate Rape Culture, and How Feminists Can Fight Back” in Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape (via khaleesi)
December 2011
9 posts
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A...
– Hagakure (via mnmal)
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward...
– Brian Tracy (via myquotelibrary)
The business of humanity has become entertainment, and entertainment is the...
– Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM (via rafer)
A strange thing happened Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill. As Rep. Stenny Hoyer...
– Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story (via wreckandsalvage)
“We regret, Mr. Speaker, that you have walked off the platform without addressing the issue of critical importance to this country, and that is the continuation of the middle class tax cut,...
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn (via sebastianwaters)
The best practice one can make is to speak with oneself, with one’s own fear; to...
– VOLUME XIII - 17 (via rahmin)
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your...
– - Gandhi
Life is a process. Recognize good process design. (via bmdesign)
Astronomers report that they have taken the measure of the biggest, baddest...
– The New York Times, “Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you...
– Gandhi (via fred-wilson)
November 2011
8 posts
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise...
– ― Stephen Colbert (via bmdesign)
Yes!
Robert Reich: A Thanksgiving Reflection: Looking... →
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Most political analysis of America’s awful economy focuses on whether it will doom President Obama’s reelection or cause Congress to turn toward one party or the other. These are important questions, but we should really be looking at the deeper problems with which whoever wins in 2012…
Political elites are worried about thunder on the right and the left, but they show...
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...
– Evelyn Waugh (via misswallflower)
consumer debt to pay for higher education has cracked the $1 trillion dollar...
– The Costliest Bubble - Forbes (via rahmin)
In some cases, things are inevitable. The hard part is that you don’t know how...
– Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine (via interestingsnippets)
Two coasts and two riots: a frat riot and a cop riot. Each riot, an indelible...
– Penn State and Berkeley: A Tale of Two Protests - Dave Zirin
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
October 2011
2 posts
A team of computational linguists at Carnegie Mellon University… has used...
– Twitterology - A New Science? - NYTimes.com (via interestingsnippets)
Have you forgotten that we invented time? That clocks did not exist in any real...
– Hurry up, get more done, and die. Plus, 7 essential cross-disciplinary books to understand time. (via curiositycounts)
September 2011
10 posts
1 tag
Before you can surf a wave, you have to throw yourself into the wave, and let it...
– Woolie Reitherman, one of the Nine Old Men of Disney Animation, via @bonifer (via taylordavidson)
The richer–that is, the more varied and complete–the individual’s emotional...
– Otto Frank, “Love, Guilt and the Denial of Feelings” (1927)
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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
– Jonathan Lethem (via verymuch)
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Two of the biggest impediments to truth and excellence are people’s ego’s and...
– Management Lessons from Ray Dalio : Farnam Street (via slantback)
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Different languages are spoken at varying speeds but thanks to correlated...
– The speed and density of language (via wildcat2030)
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via rahmin)
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Some in America are still addicted to the quick fix and the fast buck. They...
– Leadership Is About Taking The Long View | Fast Company (via infoneer-pulse)
Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them....
– John Holt (via Caterina)
1 Be healthy. Are startups all about pulling all nighters and eating ramen...
– Five Skills You Need for Startup Success, According to Ethernet Inventor Bob Metcalfe (via davemorin)
August 2011
13 posts
1 tag
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty...
– Steve Jobs (via stewartmccoy)
We need white space because “that’s when we process what has actually been...
– Do Less, Accomplish More | Think Tank | Big Think (via taylordavidson)
I am nothing. It’s simple. If I were smart, I might be afraid of looking...
– Paul Bucheit - I am nothing
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… studies show that people with the best self-control are the ones who structure...
– Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? NYTimes.com (via somethingchanged)
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“When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you...
– Steve Jobs | The end of the PC era (via courtenaybird)
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer...
– Dr. Seuss (via lookforward)