September 2012
1 post
Availability is more important than ownership.
August 2012
1 post
“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” ~Unknown
July 2012
1 post
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. George Orwell
June 2012
1 post
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” -Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy
April 2012
1 post
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
%u2013 Emperor Charles V
February 2012
4 posts
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security~John Allen Paulos
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to...”
Philosophy is not a spectator sport
“Embrace your imperfections”
December 2011
2 posts
“the art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the...”
– Voltaire
Done is better than perfect
November 2011
1 post
The more I want something done, the less I call it work - Richard Bach
October 2011
3 posts
“You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much...”
– Steve Jobs
You can’t live in paradise—but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really. Brad Warner
Stay committed in your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach -Tom Robbins
September 2011
1 post
“what we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do”
June 2011
2 posts
The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
gtd
A ritual, consciously created, is an expression of fierce intentionality. Nothing less will do, if you’re truly determined to take control of your life.
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
1 post
Key ingredient to entrepreneurial success
A great idea?
Financial backing?
A charismatic founder?
A bulletproof business plan?
Great selling skills?
These things can certainly help. But what will make or break your entrepreneurial journey is:
The ability to be a scientist.
What I mean specifically about being a scientist is willingness to:
Create a working hypothesis and test it
Observe results with curiosity, not judgment
...
January 2011
3 posts
Principles learned from the ocean
Take only what you need
Not knowing where you are going will take you somewhere else
You can observe a great deal by watching
Thought of having the rib removed and of having a wife made of it, but they tell me that this art has been lost!
Wittgenstein
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.” —Samuel Beckett
December 2010
1 post
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it but to enable it.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
November 2010
1 post
Gandhi said:
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
October 2010
1 post
So travel, at heart, is just a quick way to keeping our minds mobile and awake. As Santayana, the heir to Emerson and Thoreau with whom I began, wrote, “There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar; it keeps the mind nimble; it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.” Romantic poets inaugurated an era of travel because they were the great apostles...
September 2010
2 posts
Desire What You Have
August 2010
4 posts
Key to Golf:
The areas that have the most influence on a golfer’s score are long-distance tee shots, shots from 200-250 yards, and shots from 150-200 yards. It’s these locations on the course not the greens where golfers are most able to distinguish themselves from the pack.
I have to destroy time. I don’t want
to live in harmony with it.
Page 105 smile you are traveling - Henry Rollins
“Who is wise: He that learns from everyone Who is powerful? He that governs his passions Who is rich? He that is content Who is that? Nobody”
Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1755
“You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can’t be conquered; you conquer yourself – your hopes, your fears
Jim Whittiker
July 2010
1 post
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells
June 2010
1 post
answer to life the universe and everything - type in google
May 2010
1 post
“I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
Mark Twain
April 2010
3 posts
“The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion. The tunnel is.” ~Unknown
“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” ~Unknown
March 2010
1 post
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. (Francis Bacon, Essays, 11. 1884 Of Great Place).
February 2010
1 post
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle
January 2010
1 post
If I draw a circle, most people, when asked what I have drawn, will say I have drawn a circle, or a disc or a ball. Very few people will say I’ve drawn a hole in the wall, because most people think of the inside first, rather than thinking of the outside. But actually these two sides go together - you cannot have what is in here unless you have what is out there.
September 2009
3 posts
Mark Twain said, “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
Dont be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. ~Steve Job
“It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.” ~Pema Chodron
August 2009
1 post
The thing is, it’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
- Jonathan Ive
July 2009
1 post
If we can’t be happy where we are, with what we have, how can we ever be truly happy somewhere else? - Janice Hunter - Staycation
June 2009
2 posts
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
- Gustave Flaubert
The ignorance of my geography knows no bounds hence has no frontiers.
May 2009
4 posts
“It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.” ~Dalai Lama
“The ultimate source of happiness is our mental attitude.” ~Dalai Lama
