November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the...”
– Johnny Cash
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August 2011
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Excerpt from Ben Franklin's Autobiography
My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through the thirteen; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain...
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“Any business that’s based on ideas will have a positive future. Any business...”
– The Hidden Persuader: “Food for thought”
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““Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your...”
July 2011
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On Trends
About Trends: We never tire of pointing out that trends are only good for one thing: inspiring you to innovate, to come up with new goods, services and experiences for (or even better, with) your customers. -Trendwatching
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“Shakespeare was writing at a time of great censorship. You couldn’t say...”
– Helen Mirren, Esquire 8/11, What I’ve Learned
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The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered: “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then...
June 2011
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Great Quote: “There is no issue because there’s no other way.”
May 2011
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Creativity in Big Cities
In LA, the sheer distance between destinations means it is not uncommon to spend large chunks of your day alone driving from place to place, forcing a kind of quietness one rarely associates with a bustling metropolis of ten million. …It might be absurd to say, but the space (in such cities) allows for more thought and clarity.
From Wallpaper, May 2011 on Contemporary Art in LA
April 2011
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March 2011
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“Advertising says to people, ‘Here’s what we’ve got....”
– ihaveanidea
January 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” - Walt Disney
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Mistaken Identity of the Day: The Wrong Neil
thedailywhat:
A “midwestern momma” named April Roller mistakenly tweeted award-winning author Neil Gaiman believing his account belonged to one Neil Patrick Harris. What happened next may have single-handedly legitimized the existence of Twitter for all eternity:
Class act.
[ensignau / cyn-c.]
October 2010
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kitten riding a turtle | clusterflock →
Vintage: How to do a business deal from your car...
go:
December 15, 1988: Michael Tenzer shows how to wheel and deal from the car with a fax machine hooked up to a cellular car phone.
Credit: Los Angeles Times
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Watchnewsweek:
andrewromano:
Obama on Dylan:
Here’s what I love about Dylan: He was exactly as you’d expect he would be. He wouldn’t come to the rehearsal; usually, all these guys are practicing before the set in the evening. He didn’t want to take a picture with me; usually all the talent is dying to take a picture with me and Michelle before the show, but he didn’t show up to that. He came in...
September 2010
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“If you can look at something and say ‘I like it’ then it isn’t new.”
– Helmut Krone
August 2010
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Burn Energy Drink: Snowboarder | Ads of the World →
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“Seek not to walk in the footsteps of the great men. Seek what they sought.”
– Lao Tzu
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Presentation Tip
“Before the orator can inspire audiences with any emotion,” argued Winston Churchill, “he must be swayed by it himself. When he would rouse their indignation his heart is filled with anger. Before he can move their tears his own must flow. To convince them he must himself believe.”
July 2010
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Where the Money Goes
From TIME, “Tax and Sip” July 12, 2010
How do people feel about soda taxes? In April, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute asked residents of New York State is they supported or apposed a “fat tax” on nondiet sugar soda. Thirty-one percent were in favor, and 66% were apposed. Yet when asked if they would support such a tax if the money raised were used to fund...
If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
June 2010
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2010 gadgets redesigned for 1977 →
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“I think it’s fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies and we need to spend more money on technology to respond in case of a catastrophic spill, there are folks up there, who will not be named, who would have said this is classic, big-government overregulation and...
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The US President
“Over and over again we begin by looking to the president as the solution to all our problems, and we end up believing he’s the source of all our problems.”
-from the Cult of the Presidency, by Gene Healy
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