What optimism really is

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"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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Practice makes you perfect

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

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What The World Needs Now

Image 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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How to build a ship by leading

Image 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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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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Hope feeds the soul

Image 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

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Seth Godin defines social media

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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One definition of emergency

"In case you don’t know me well enough, an 'emergency' means that something really bad happened, you don’t know what to do, you thought about it, thought through your options, thought about other people who might help you, called them, they couldn’t help you, you prayed about it, didn’t get an answer, considered your options which should include leaving the country or doing something that might land you in jail, decided that leaving the country wouldn’t work and you’re too pretty to go to jail. If you did all of that and it’s not Monday at 8am, then call me." -- via email from owner of a company, in regard to an office move

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Lincoln on Education

"Upon the subject of education... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in." -- Abraham Lincoln

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