life

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…

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

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 )

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. ...

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. ...

[2008] Web 2.0 EXPO Clay Shirky - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz1HZkaFz1w Clay Shirky talks about “Cognitive Surplus” at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008. 2000 Wikipedia projects a year, spent watching television (in the US alone) “We’re looking for the mouse”

“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). (Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )

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 ! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )

Forty-five years goes by pretty fast. Morgan Freeman in the The Bucket List (2007) (with Jack Nicholson )

Ninguém é perfeito, mas podemos escolher os defeitos com os quais queremos viver. Susana

It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. Johnathan Ive (via Pedro Custodio )

Listening to Sting on my ipod watching the world go by – literally Mike Massimino ( @Astro_Mike ), from the earth orbit

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Stop, ask questions and listen! There are more important things in life than time. — Hugo Ferreira