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Is Texting the Death of Small Talk?
Woman texts her husband on a cold winter’s morning:“Windows frozen.” Husband texts her back:“Pour some lukewarm water over it.” Woman texts back:“Computer completely dead now.” Maybe you haven’t ever misconstrued a text (or “miscontexted”) that badly, but the above joke highlights one of the challenges of texting: a greater likelihood of misinterpretation. Don’t get me wrong.…
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Don Marquis: Animal kingdom
“Human wandering through the zoo / what do your cousins think of you.” –Don Marquis, humorist and poet (1878-1937). Embed from Getty Images Related articles Evil (blessinvarkey.wordpress.com) Quotes fo’ da day (igatherum.wordpress.com)
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John Wolfgang von Goethe: Talent and character
“Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832).
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Plato: Cunning, rather than wisdom
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ” —Plato.
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John Bingham: I AM A RUNNER
“I AM A RUNNER because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I AM A RUNNER because I say I am. And no one can tell me I’m not.” —John Bingham, author and runner.
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English Proverb: Take heed
“Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek.” —English Proverb.
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Henri L. Bergson: Thought and action
“Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought.” —Henri L. Bergson.
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Mary Renault: Friendship
“It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. ” —Mary Renault.
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Betty Talmadge: Life
“Life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans.” ––Betty Talmadge
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Paula Scher: Nothing is timeless
‘You never can do what the kids do. What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can’t be a designer and say, “Oh, this is timeless.” Nothing is timeless!’ —Paula Scher.
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Kristin Armstrong: I will
“I’m glad to be here right now, poking at my threshold. I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Persecution and not…
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
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Elie Wiesel: Shadows
Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. –Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
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Lao-Tsu: The Tao of the Software Architect
This is a very liberal reading of Lao-Tsu’s Tao Te Ching for the use of software architects, based on various French and English translations. The numbers refer to the original tablets, shown at right. The architect observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is open…
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Theophrastus: Time
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. —Theophrastus
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Henri Bergson: Change
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”—Henri Bergson.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Work
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. ” –—Eleanor Roosevelt Related articles Eleanor Roosevelt’s hands (timpanogos.wordpress.com)
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Plato: Decisions
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. —Plato.
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Coco Chanel: Being irreplaceable
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. ” Coco Chanel
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being sorry
“No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. ” —Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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Colin Powell: Experts
“Experts often possess more data than judgment. ” —Colin Powell
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Isaac Mizrahi: When you can and when you can't
“When someone says you can’t do what you know you can do, then you can’t do anything. ” —Isaac Mizrahi
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Balthasar Gracian: Wisdom
“Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.” —Balthasar Gracian.
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Excellence and its appreciation
“Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it. ” —William Makepeace Thackeray
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John Calvin: Hell of a living soul
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ” —John Calvin
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Colin Powell: Surface appearances
“Keep looking below surface appearances. Don’t shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.” – Colin Powell
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Aphra Behn: Happy Lover's Hour
“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life. ” —Aphra Behn.
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Bernard Iddings Bell: To love
“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a…
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Doyle Brunson: Man on a mission
“A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. ” Doyle Brunson
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Dean Acheson: One day at a time
“The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.”—Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers and Supervisors, June 2004.
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Anonymous: Liberty and freedom
“Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.” —Anonymous
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Shane Warne: Love the game!
“I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can. ” —Shane Warne
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W C Fields: Bull By The Tail
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. W. C. Fields
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African proverb: Enemies
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” —African proverb.
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Napoleon Hill: Fears
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.” —Napoleon Hill.
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Karl von Bonstetten: Exercise, study and love
“To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart – and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.” —Karl von Bonstetten
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Samuel Johnson: Belief and disbelief
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ” —Samuel Johnson Related articles Belief and disbelief (teachingsofmasters.wordpress.com) Man’s pride and satisfaction (teachingsofmasters.wordpress.com) Clear your Mind! (hebslimdown.wordpress.com) Quote of the Day – Samuel Johnson on Anticipation (schnik.it) Life’s Too Short~ Believe to Receive! (tammyrowlandcoaching.com)
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Emily Dickinson: Heartbreak
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. ” —Emily Dickinson.
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Vera Brittain: Separate concerns
“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. ” —Vera Brittain
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Joshua Blankenship: On the web
But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing, self-promoting, controversy-creating content that has ramifications no one wants to own up to. And consequently, the web will still be lacking in common courtesy, humility, and the admittance that most of us don’t know best. Which is sad, mostly because it’s true. – Joshua…
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Sense of reason
“If some things don’t make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. ” —Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Corliss Lamont: Free will and the truth
“The intuition of free will gives us the truth.” —Corliss Lamont
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Ryan Hall: Suffering
Suffering is an extraordinary teacher. Ryan Hall, U.S. Olympic marathoner Related articles Is Olympic Marathoner Ryan Hall Really Coached by God? (cardboardmagazine.wordpress.com) Ryan Hall: Ryan’s Most Innovative Breakthrough Ever – Nissan Innovation for Endurance (the17thman.typepad.com) London 2012 Olympics: Marathon replacement Freya Murray gutted for Radcliffe (thesun.co.uk)
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Stephen Anderson: Evolution of design
At this point in experience design’s evolution, satisfaction out to be the norm, and delight out to be the goal. – Stephen Anderson
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Mahatma Gandhi: Strength
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi
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Milan Kundera: Vertigo
“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” —Milan Kundera
