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Sunday, October 5, 2014

The one characteristic and I've only been able to find one that I am absolutely comfortable saying that all great leaders have, only one, is courage, because sometimes, being a leader means you have to go first. In fact, that's why we call them leaders. Everyone in the organization knows what needs to be done, but who's gonna volunteer to do it?

-- Simon Sinek

art is a way of survival

Art is a way of survival.

-- Yoko Ono

Simon Sinek on Leadership - TED2014

Les rues de Paris

http://www.parisrues.com/

First started hooping July 2011. Life hasn't been the same since.

-- Rachael Lust

https://www.youtube.com/user/Rachaellust/about

Heartwarming Thai Commercial - Thai Good Stories By Linaloved

Groove

No need to worry what people think about you because most people aren't thinking about you.

-- Simon Sinek

Friday, August 1, 2014

go with the crowd

You can make up your own mind, or you can go with the crowd.

-- WordReference.com

A World Cup to remember

http://www.espnfc.us/blog/marcotti-musings/62/post/1950019/marcotti-a-world-cup-to-remember

-- ESPN

One journalist's recap of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

POWER (sic transit gloria Kanye)

http://rapgenius.com/Kirk-w-graves-power-sic-transit-gloria-kanye-lyrics#

-- RapGenius

An excerpt from Graves' brand-new book on Kanye West’s masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Part of Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series on classic albums. In this section, Graves examines Yeezy’s power, in song and otherwise

Sunday, June 8, 2014

How to Steal Ideas From Everybody You Meet

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140521122439-555977-how-to-steal-ideas-from-everybody-you-meet

-- LinkedIn

Monday, June 2, 2014

As a professor, I don't like this, but the cerebral virtues — curiosity, love of learning — are less strongly tied to happiness than interpersonal virtues like kindness, gratitude and capacity for love.

-- Martin Seligman

We have discovered that there is a set of human strengths that are the most likely buffers against mental illness: courage, optimism, interpersonal skill, work ethic, hope, honesty and perseverance. Much of the task of prevention will be to create a science of human strength whose mission will be to foster these virtues in young people.

-- Martin Seligman

The article had said this beforehand:

In 1998 Martin Seligman won election to a one-year term as President of the American Psychological Association and proposed a new focus: on healthy individuals rather than on pathology.

I have learned from past experiences to keep going, forget the chances you have missed and to keep persevering and a chance will come.

-- Gareth Bale

The article had said this beforehand:

It could have all been different for Bale and Real, after he spurned three good chances to score before heading in his side's vital second goal at the Estadio da Luz.