June 2012
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“If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely...”
– Milton Glaser, considered by many the greatest graphic designer alive and celebrating his 83rd birthday today, on art, purpose, and the capacity for astonishment. (via explore-blog)
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“College is a place where the professor’s lecture notes go straight to the...”
– Mark Twain, quoted by Daphne Koller at TEDGlobal 2012. For an eloquent critique of this industrialized model of education at which Twain’s satire is directed, see Sir Ken Robinson on changing educational paradigms. (via explore-blog)
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“There’s nothing more exciting than seeing someone whose life has been affected...”
– Wisdom from Milton Glaser, the greatest graphic designer alive, who celebrates his 83rd birthday today. (via explore-blog)
“Entrepreneurialism isn’t about what happened last night, but about the morning...”
– Sir Richard Branson in the introduction to Velocity: The Seven New Laws for a World Gone Digital.
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Usefulness Is the Greatest Feature of All →
“The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.”
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
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On repeat.
7 Steps To Find Your Niche -- And Dare To Risk →
Aristotle once said, “Courage is the first of all human qualities because it is the one that guarantees all others.” Have the courage to take the leap and close the gap between your dreams and reality.
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Always Swim Downstream →
I say stop worrying about what you suck at, and focus on what you’re good at. It’s more fun, and you’ll be happier.
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No I'm not Crazy, Just Passionately Curious →
Trying to explain where my passion for some of the things you see on here come from.
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Watchdavid:
McDonald’s: Why Your Burger Doesn’t Look Like the One in the Ad
This is some pretty ingenious marketing.
oh yeah.
“YouTube users upload 48 hours of video, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of...”
– How Much Data is Created Every Minute?
(It’s actually 46,732)
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“No one has gone to school to be a CEO—you don’t learn this except by getting in...”
– Jerry Colonna (via bijan)
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“People should be the business of themselves, CEO of their career, and...”
– Reid Hoffman
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“My motto is, ‘Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco,...”
– Irving Stone in Those Who Love, a fine addition to our ongoing collection of sound advice. (via explore-blog)
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“You once described the inventor’s life as “one of failure.” How so?
I made...”
– Sir James Dyson on invention and failure, corroborating the creativity isn’t a Eureka! moment so much as persistent iteration and trasformation.
Also see other famous creators on the fear of failure.
(via explore-blog)
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Watchallenburt:
Entrepreneur and grade-A badass, Elon Musk, sat down with 60 minutes to talk about his insanely ambitious venture, SpaceX.
What can I say, I freaking love this guy. Starting a private, space exploration startup with zero experience (he has an undergraduate physics degree …that doesn’t count) is the definition of “Go Big or Go Home”.
What grabbed me the most about this interview was...
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“…That record, and Mr. Awlaki’s calls for more attacks, presented Mr. Obama...”
– Obama’s Secret Kill List
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WatchWhat he did not anticipate was that the story would also capture his, and his family’s, determination, love, infectious humor and self-affirming attitudes. And, as everyone goes through their own transformations over the course of the film, “Be Here Now” transcends the subject of cancer and becomes a universal life-lesson about living fearlessly, going for your dreams, embracing each moment and...
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“Stocks don’t go up because companies do well or do poorly. Stocks go up and down...”
– Mark Cuban
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“Chaney was sound asleep when he heard the knocking at his front door. It was...”
– The Man Who Hacked Hollywood
“Invest in yourself. Do the things that can get you closer to your goals and...”
– Mark Cuban
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