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?...
[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