Charles Mingus on Creativity Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple – Charles Mingus
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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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Truth is Like a Lion
Truth is Like a Lion “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” – Augustine Augustine (354-430) gets a bad rap, and for good reason given his obsessively prudish […]
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Epicurus on Happiness
Epicurus on Happiness “We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.” – Epicurus Epicurus is one of the […]
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You Have No Right To be Bored
Seriously, you have no right to be bored. If you feel bored, the fault is yours. Sorry, but it’s true. Stop whining and start living.
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Danny Kaye on Travel
Danny Kaye on Travel To travel is to take a journey into yourself. – Danny Kaye
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Eyes Are Useless When the Mind is Blind
Eyes Are Useless When the Mind is Blind – Unknown
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Ibn Battuta on Traveling
Traveling–it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta
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