Posts tagged "life"
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"Most artists can’t draw.”
— Roy Simmons
But all artists can *see*!"
- Seth Godin
(in “The Linchpin”)
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"Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal.
(…)
And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator"
- Seth Godin
(in “The Linchpin”)
"À primeira cai quem não sabe, à segunda quem se esquece, à terceira quem merece!"
- Hugo Ferreira
(adapted)

Errar e aprender é humano! Só “errar” é como a mosca a bater no vidro… no vidro… no vidro… no vidro…

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"O nosso corpo fala connosco. Se não ouves, ele GRITA!"
- Ângela Coelho
"If you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying"
- Bob Dylan

(Source: amazon.com)

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"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
- Steve Jobs (Stanford commencement speech, June 2005)

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle."
- Steve Jobs (Stanford commencement speech, June 2005)

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

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"If you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong room."
- Fabien Lasserre (@flhke) on Twitter
"It’s never too late to be who you might have been."
- George Eliot
English novelist (1819 - 1880)
"Life is 90% maintenance"
- Popular Saying

Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do (at TED.com)

(funny improv interaction with Al Gore starting at 5:15)

Bottom line:

What are you going to focus on?

Right now, you have to decide what you’re going to focus on. In this second, consciously or unconsciously. The minute you decide to focus on something you’ve got to give it a meaning, and whatever that meaning is produces emotion. Is this the end or the beginning? Is God punishing me or rewarding me, or is this the roll of the dice? An emotion, then, creates what we’re going to do or the action.

It’s not about resources, it’s about resourcefulness, the EMOTION behind.

Shape the STATE that you are in: Focus -> Meaning -> Emotion -> Action

Clay Shirky talks about “Cognitive Surplus” at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.

“We’re looking for the mouse”

How to ask a favor?

Part 2

“When you’re asking for someone to spend time with you, you gotta think really hard about why they ought to do it, that has nothing to do with you.” — Seth Godin

Still boggles my mind to see requests for participation online that state that “we need your opinion because it’s important for us”… the “offline” business has learned that lesson ages ago!

How to ask a favor?

Part 1

“Compassion, I’m blind!”

vs.

“Today is a beautiful day, and I cannot see it…”

Share your point of view, your life, your passion, your handicaps… only by sharing can you get feedback from the people that identify with you. (and only from those, as the others were unreachable anyway).