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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.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Stretching for a Fit Body

http://www.pedalpushersonline.com/?CID=646

-- Pedal Pushers Online

HD Wallpapers

http://www.hdwallpapers.in/

Good for drawing from photo

If I Were 22: You Want to Change the World, Do You? Then Unlearn These 3 Things Now

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140520110422-6126609-if-i-were-22-you-want-to-change-the-world-do-you-then-unlearn-these-3-things-now

-- LinkedIn

Cartooning for Peace - Dessins pour la paix

http://www.cartooningforpeace.org/

Living Your Values, Part I

http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/living-your-values-1.htm

-- Steve Pavlina

Friday, May 30, 2014

Où trouver des épiceries américaines et anglo-saxonnes à Paris ?

http://www.evous.fr/Ou-trouver-des-epiceries-anglosaxonnes-a-Paris,1175018.html

-- Evous

"I got out of my own way," he said. "I was thinking too much. I was worrying about what you guys (the media) were saying. I was worrying about what shots I was going to shoot throughout a game. I was thinking too much, and the game of basketball is played off of instincts.

-- Kevin Durant

This comment came after Kevin Durant scored 33 points in a 120-109 victory by the Oklahoma City Thunder against the Memphis Grizzlies in a first-round NBA playoff game.