Lao Tzu on Priorities If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. – Lao Tzu
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Category: Ideas
Anthony Bourdain on Obsession
Anthony Bourdain on Obsession “Obsession is the natural foe of mediocrity.” – Anthony Bourdain From Bourdain’s No Reservations Pacific Northwest episode . Books by Anthony Bourdain.
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George Bernard Shaw On Censorship
George Bernard Shaw On Censorship “All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the […]
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Persistence
Persistence A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence. – A Daoist Saying.
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Don’t Worry About Making Waves
Don’t Worry About Making Waves Don’t worry about making waves simply be being yourself. The moon does it all the time. – Scott Stabile Scott has written Big Love.
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Orwell on Truth
Orwell on Truth You probably have seen this one before, but it is worth repeating and worth discussing. “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” – George Orwell This quote […]
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Charles Mingus on Creativity
Charles Mingus on Creativity Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple – Charles Mingus
Read moreSocial Change is Not an App
Social Change Social change is not an app you can download, install, and run like that. You have to work to produce change.
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Internet Trolls
Internet Trolls
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Focusing on the Wrong Problem
Focusing on the Wrong Problem “Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.” How true is this? How often do we end up focusing on the wrong problem. Or maybe not the wrong problem but focusing so much […]
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