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Monday, October 24, 2011

What optimism really is

Never Give Up via verylol.com
"Optimism is, when faced with a set of circumstances, choosing to see that the best possible outcome is still possible." -- Daniel Johnson, Jr.,

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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Practice makes you perfect

Miles Davis, Den Haag, 1985Image via Wikipedia"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself." -- Miles Davis, via Helena Bouchez

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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Sculpting curvesImage by Plutor via Flickr"Where the spirit does not works with the hand, there is no art." — Da Vinci

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

What The World Needs Now

ALIVEImage by olvrbrown via Flickr“Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Attributed to Howard Thurman, spotted in Dan Miller's 48 Days newsletter

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Friday, September 09, 2011

How to build a ship by leading

LeadershipImage by glennharper via Flickr“If you want to build a ship, don’t divide the work and give orders; teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." -- Antoine Saint-Exupery, as seen in Twitter Like a Butterfly, Text Like a Bee

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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Christopher Penn on Email Deliverability

"Engagement as the new deliverability stat puts the ball squarely in the court of the email marketer, which in turn places a premium on effective subject lines to drive that engagement." -- Christopher S. Penn, Director of Strategy, WhatCounts Email Marketing

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Monday, January 10, 2011

Hope feeds the soul

Pearl BuckImage via Wikipedia"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death." -- Pearl Buck, as quoted in Reel Parables: Life Lessons from Popular Films (affiliate link), by James Hogan, p. 116







Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Seth Godin defines social media

BERLIN - NOVEMBER 09:  A Visitor looks through...Image by Getty Images via @daylife"Social media is either a time-wasting, wool-gathering, yak-shaving waste of effort or, perhaps, just maybe, it’s a crack in the wall between you and the rest of the world. It’s a choice... up to you." --Seth Godin, "Brainwashed: Seven ways to reinvent yourself"

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