Dear, Olivier.

"If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge,..."

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:41:02 -0500

“If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.”

- Malcolm Gladwell

"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:03:49 -0500

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

- Bill Cosby

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:26:13 -0500

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

- Steve Martin

"Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity."

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:00:11 -0500

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”

- Aaron Swartz

"If you have ever struggled in life, feeling grateful comes easy."

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:52:43 -0500

“If you have ever struggled in life, feeling grateful comes easy.”

- David O. Russell

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool..."

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:38:53 -0500

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”

- Unknown

"If you say that money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your..."

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:42:30 -0500

“If you say that money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time: You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to go on doing things you don’t like doing — which is stupid!”

- Allan Watts

"Don’t let other people’s ideas of success and good or meaningful work filter your perception of what..."

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:02:19 -0500

“Don’t let other people’s ideas of success and good or meaningful work filter your perception of what you want to do. Listen to your heart and mind’s purpose”

- Maria Popova

"I truly, truly believe that our first responsibility is to ourselves—to be true to our sense of..."

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:01:45 -0500

“I truly, truly believe that our first responsibility is to ourselves—to be true to our sense of right and wrong, our sense of purpose and meaning. That’s how we contribute to the world. Anyone who is able to do that for him or herself is already contributing a great deal of human potential into our collective, shared pool of humanity.”

- Maria Popova

"It’s your life — but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own..."

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:40:52 -0500

“It’s your life — but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community or a pressure group, you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy..."

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:22:46 -0500

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”

- William Butler Yeats

"Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any..."

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:45:19 -0400

“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times… . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.”

- Ping Fu’s “Shanghai Papa”

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Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:02:45 -0400

"You should have a healthy disregard for the impossible."

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:22:06 -0400

“You should have a healthy disregard for the impossible.”

- Larry Page

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Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:10:49 -0400

"Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You..."

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:21:36 -0400

“Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”

- Ray Bradbury

"An expert is a man who has stopped thinking because ‘he knows.’"

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:19:08 -0400

“An expert is a man who has stopped thinking because ‘he knows.’”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"The guy that invented the ship also invented the shipwreck."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:37:17 -0400

“The guy that invented the ship also invented the shipwreck.”

- Paul Verillo

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:52:31 -0400

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

- Albert Einstein

"There are thousands of paths. They all lead nowhere. You must ask yourself one question: ‘Does this..."

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:16:12 -0400

“There are thousands of paths. They all lead nowhere. You must ask yourself one question: ‘Does this path have a heart?’ If it does, the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.”

- Don Juan