No kings......................

 

more fun here

 

more fun here

A bridge..............................

 

.....................................................too far.

Please..................................

 

.............................................don't wait.

seeing..........................

 

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes.

-Marcel Proust

voids.................

 

Everyone in business wants to know, "What's new?"  But a better question for creating new market opportunities is to ask, "What's missing?"

     One of the major voids we see across demographics . . . is people's need and desire to make good friends, feel less isolated and lonely, and belong to something more meaningful.

-Kevin Ervin Kelly, Irreplaceable

Curiosity..............................

 

.............is supposed to fend for itself, apparently.

talking about..............................

 

....................................................gaps.

the way......................

 

Before listening to the way, do not fail to wash your ears.

Otherwise it will be impossible to listen clearly.

-reasoning here

imitation......................

 

We learn best through other people.  Our ability to learn from each other greatly exceeds our ability to solve problems on our own. . . . "The secret to our species' success lies not in our raw, innate intelligence or in any specialized mental abilities," writes Harvard anthropologist Joseph Henrich.  Instead, he argues it's the ability to learn easily from the innovations of others that makes us uniquely capable as a species. . . . Imitation is the foundation for human ingenuity.

-Scott H. Young, Get Better at Anything

Reexamine....................

 

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul

-Walt Whitman

better than you were...................

 

     The legendary music producer Rick Rubin was asked if there's anything the artists he's worked with (which includes some of the all-time greats: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Run-D.M.C., Eminem, Adele, Dr. Dre, and on and on) have in common.

     They all struggle with self-doubt.

    To overcome self-doubt, Rubin tells them, "Make it your goal to just be better than you were."

     Make it your goal, he says, to focus on goals you have control over.  "Compete only with yourself.  If you say, 'I don't want to write unless I can write better than The Beatles,' that's a hard road.  But if you say, 'I want to write a better song today than I wrote yesterday,' that can be done."

-Paul Rabil, The Way of the Champion 

forces at work..................

 

     All art is a form of poetry.  It's always changing, never fixed.  We may think we know what a piece we made means, yet over time that interpretation may change.  The creator stops being the creator once they finish the work.  They then become the viewer.  And the viewer can bring as much of their own meaning to a piece as the creator.

     We will never know a work's true meaning.  It's helpful to remember that there are forces at work beyond our comprehension.  Let's make are, and let others make the stories.

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

demands....................

 

If we accept that life is imperfect, we'll make fewer self-defeating demands for perfection on ourselves and others.

-Brad Jacobs

gentle...........................

 

1.  A gentle answer turns away wrath,

But a harsh word stirs up anger.

2.  The tongue of the wise man makes knowledge acceptable,

But the mouth of fools spouts folly.

-The Holy Bible, Proverbs, 15:1-2

an enormous refuse heap.............

 

The ideology of progress has led to barbarism, and modern science has become a tool of enslavement rather than a tool of liberation.  In this post-Nietzschean world, the enslavement was not restricted to dictatorships, the usual recipients of the epithet "totalitarian"; it was just as pervasive in the "democratic" countries of the West, where the all-embracing power of the culture industry had nearly buried the possibility of independent critical thought beneath an enormous refuse heap of commodified artifacts and reified minds.

-Wilfred M. McClay, Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (1994)

only in fairy tales.............

 

     "Of one thing, however, be certain," says Warren Buffett, "If a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance.  Only in fairy tales are emperors told they are naked."

-Peter Bevelin, Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

this admirable order...............

 

In the heavens, therefore, there is nothing fortuitous, unadvised, inconstant, or variable:  all there is order, truth, reason, and constancy; and all the things which are destitute of these qualities are counterfeit, deceitful, and erroneous, and have their residence about the earth beneath the moon, the lowest of all the planets.  He, therefore, who believes that this admirable order and almost incredible regularity of the heavenly bodies, by which the preservation and entire safety of all things is secure, is destitute of intelligence, must be considered to be himself wholly destitute of all intellect whatever.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero's Tusculan Disputations