December 2008
8 posts
November 2008
29 posts
slansai:
It helps to be driven, to want to do this really, really badly. It sounds like you do. It sounds like you want this badly enough to just do it. So do it. Do you need permission? I will grant you permission to do everything you need to do creatively. Permission is hereby granted to go forth and bother people and be creative. Whatever you have to do.
My main message to you, to repeat,...
“Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams...”
– Tim Ferriss, The Timing is Never Right (via skysignal) (via jotterbook) (via frannyandzooey) (via amandoline) (via unicornology) (via slansai)
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs (via skysignal) (via slansai)
“anticipate where your customers might slip up and try your best to keep them...”
– Sam - 37signals
96. There is rarely a need to raise your voice. At...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
“Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.”
– Dorothy Parker (via rulesformyunbornson)
94. Don't show off. Impress.
(via rulesformyunbornson)
90. Push-ups and sit-ups are all you'll ever need...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
“For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson (via ckck) (via rulesformyunbornson)
“It isn’t the mountains to climb that wear you out, it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
– Muhammad Ali (via rulesformyunbornson)
74. Philanthropy is not measured in dollars and...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like...”
– Noel Coward (via rulesformyunbornson)
61. Exercise in the morning.
rulesformyunbornson:
Bicycling to school or work is a good idea.
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”
– Plato (via ckck) (via rulesformyunbornson)
“Take it easy. But take it.”
– Woody Guthrie (via rulesformyunbornson)
“Courage is not the lack of fear, it is acting in spite of it.”
– Mark Twain (via rulesformyunbornson)
“I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.”
– Unknown (via thresca) (via sunlit-skies) (via srsly)
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer...”
– Dr. Seuss (via kari-shma) (via present) (via breathsoftruth) (via srsly)
slansai:
noisebetweenstations:
Here’s some of the principles behind the Head First Formula:
Instead of repetition, use novelty to tell the brain something is important
Use pictures, because your brain is tuned for visuals, not text.
Place words within the pictures they describe (as opposed to somewhere else in the page, like a caption or in the body text)
Use redundancy, saying the same...
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”
– Charles Buxton (via skysignal) (via sunlit-skies) (via srsly) (via slansai)
August 2008
4 posts
Lessons from Ralph Waldo Emerson
slansai:
Write everything down.
Eliminate distractions.
Keep Moving.
July 2008
4 posts
“Remember that your brain is a creative organ with limitless creative...”
– Merlin Mann
“Ah!” said a brave painter to me, thinking on these things, “if a man has failed,...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A thought here, when you finish quicker than you were supposed to, two things...”
“If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes,...”
– Woodrow Wilson
June 2008
1 post
“Let’s all look for the mouse!”
– Clay Shirky
May 2008
2 posts
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness....”
– Lao Tzu
April 2008
10 posts
“The imaginary, finally, can be described as that subjective aspect which...”
– Robert Spande
“The symbolic is that differential and penultimately arbitrary system of signs...”
– Robert Spande