Steven Kempton
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Steven Kempton
"N*gga, I promise you can," Will Smith says one bad night f*cks up ten, as he explains the difference between good and great.
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The Art Of Dialoguex.comWill Smith on being great.
When the police captured McVeigh, he was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the words “Sic Semper Tyrannis.” The same words John Wilkes Booth shouted after he assassinated Lincoln, they mean “Thus always to tyrants” and are the words attributed to Brutus after he and his supporters murdered Caesar.
Heather Cox Richardson • Democracy Awakening
But enlightenment, as the monk says, isn’t a point where everything stops and you’ve made it, forever surrounded by a halo of bliss. No, it is something alive, something that pushes you on every day, that calls you to return, whether you are a Daigyoman Ajari on Mount Hiei or a data-management assistant in an office in Hounslow
Adharanand Finn • The Way of the Runner
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of
... See moreLuck doesn't happen Sunday night watching the Kardashians on your couch.
Luck happens when you put yourself in an environment where the universe can reward you with opportunities, and then you gotta jump on them.
Tweets From Jesse Itzler · @JesseItzlertwitter.comExperience. Don’t observe.
Inhale. Don’t read.
Transfigure. Don’t shift.
Advocate. Don’t ponder.
Prove. Don’t promise.
Encourage. Don’t cut.
Imagine. Don’t worry.
Do. Don’t analyze.
Hear. Don’t listen.
Show. Don’t tell.
Give. Don’t take.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
Sebastian Junger talks near-death experience in new book "In My Time of Dying"
youtube.com"A banker is only going to hand you an umbrella on a sunny day"
- Andrew Ross Sorkin on World of DaaS podcast
Tweets From Auren Hoffman · @aurentwitter.comOnce, when they came upon a photo of the Pope blessing a group of believers, Richard’s father asked his son if he knew the difference between the Pope and his followers. And then, before Richard could answer, he said, “The difference is the hat. He is wearing a hat.”