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Idiots Out-Innovate Intellectuals
Here’s a great quote from Ville Keränen from Finland: “One idiot who walks gets further than five intellectuals who only talk…” Share This...
How to Be Unique
“The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” — Walt Disney This quote is quite appropriate given my recent blog entries (and this one ...
Crazy Goals Drive Your Crazy
“43Things.com,” a community-based online to-do list, allows you to list your top goals in life. A blog reader, Antony, culled some interesting statistics from that website. 5,716 peop...
What is Passion?
The other day I was having lunch with Mike Bell, the man who hired me for an engineering co-op job during university - an opportunity that changed my life. He has also changed the lives of over 250,0...
Live and Love Like a Little One
Here is a beautiful passage that Antony, a reader in Australia, sent to me. It poetically describes how adults can rekindle their love of life by thinking like a child. This is an eloquent, simple, ...
Quote of the Day
“Goals are for the future. Values are now. Goals are set. Values are lived. Goals change. Values are rocks you can count on.” From Gung Ho! by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles Share This...
Innovation Quotes of the Day
Man can only have a certain number of teeth, hairs, and ideas. There comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, his hair, and his ideas. - Voltaire Ideas must work through the brains and arms o...
Pursuing Passion Quote of the Day
“If it is possible to make yourself into a great hacker. The way to do it may be to make the following deal with yourself: you never have to work on boring projects (unless your family will starve...
Quote of the Day
Antony from Sydney, Australia has sent me dozens of great quotes. Today, he is providing his own personal quote. “I just realized that few of the greatest things I’ve achieved in this lif...
Quote of the Day
“I worry a lot of people fall into the trap of believing that they need to make big life decisions before they can start doing anything….Your life doesn’t need to go through a predictable ...
Quote of the Day
“If Thomas Edison didn’t know what he had when he invented the phonograph while he thought he was trying to create better industrial equipment for telegraph operators…what are the ...
Quote of the Day
“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy - it won’t come out while you’re watching.” – Tennessee Williams ...
Quote of the Day
'Hacking something together means deciding what to do as you're doing it, not a subordinate executing the vision of his boss. It implies the result won't be pretty, because it will be made quickly o...