Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
How calligraphy shaped Steve Jobs and Apple’s typographic legacy - TypeRoom
Rick Rubin talks about hidden rules that hold us back:
"It’s a healthy practice to approach our work with as few accepted rules, starting points, and limitations as possible. Often the standards in our chosen medium are so ubiquitous, we take them for granted. They are invisible and unquestioned. This makes it nearly impossible to think outside the... See more
"It’s a healthy practice to approach our work with as few accepted rules, starting points, and limitations as possible. Often the standards in our chosen medium are so ubiquitous, we take them for granted. They are invisible and unquestioned. This makes it nearly impossible to think outside the... See more
Brain Food: Greats Don't Wait
I guess maybe there’s a line between thinking of loneliness as something that can be noticed and interrogated, and loneliness as something that can be isolated and solved for...and the latter zone doesn’t sit right with me.
Can you be my friend.com
feelings can’t be ‘rectified’ or ‘solved’
Acknowledging this bias or incompleteness is perhaps the most important part of the work.
Answers are mere theory.
Answers are mere theory.
Matt Klein • Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
To overpraise is a subtle form of disrespect — and everybody knows it.
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Brands spend a lot of time embodying statements, but of course they’re really asking questions.
Just Do It is really asking what’s stopping you, besides yourself?
I’m Lovin’ It is really asking why feel guilty?
A Diamond Is Forever is really asking yes but how much do you really love her you fickle piece of shit ? or something like that anyway.
Just Do It is really asking what’s stopping you, besides yourself?
I’m Lovin’ It is really asking why feel guilty?
A Diamond Is Forever is really asking yes but how much do you really love her you fickle piece of shit ? or something like that anyway.