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Quote :: Art should be an act of every individual willing to say something new and that which is not quite familiar. ::Maya Lin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to Maya Lin, art should be an act of every individual willing to say something new and that which is not quite familiar.[5] When a project comes her way, she tries to “understand the definition (of the site) in a verbal before finding the form. To understand what a piece is conceptually and what its nature should be even before visiting the site”.[5]
via Maya Lin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

 
 
I’d like to rephrase this as to live should be the act of every individual willing to do something new and is not quite familiar.
 

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rePost::HPs Decade-Long Departure – Horace Dediu – Harvard Business Review

How cruel.
But thats the nature of unforeseeable growth: you cannot foresee what will happen and plans never work out. Data and planning dont help. The lesson is that you need to plan for that which cannot be planned. When you are at your peak you must assume failure is imminent and when you are at the trough you must assume success is inevitable.All failures of strategy are rooted in the assumption that outcomes are predictable.
via HPs Decade-Long Departure – Horace Dediu – Harvard Business Review.

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Quote:“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.” — Steve Jobs

“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”
— Steve Jobs

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rePost::Any journey is a pilgrimage « Paulo Coelho's Blog

Emphasis mine

What is the appeal of traveling and what do you receive from traveling? Are they reflected to your work? Please let us know what does traveling means to you (Eduard, Twitter)
I’m a pilgrim writer and that inevitably appears in the way my characters deals with space.
I’m in constant movement and very often I find that my characters need to equally find themselves in a journey.
I believe that we are constantly experiencing transformation and that’s why we need to let life guide us.
Every day is different, every day can have a magic moment, but we don’t see the opportunity, because we think: ‘Oh this is boring I’m just commuting to work.’
How many interesting people you are missing, just because our parents told us “don’t talk to strangers”?
You must get as much as you can from any journey, because – in the end – the journey is all you have. It doesn’t matter what you accumulate in terms of material wealth, because you are going to die anyway, so why not live?
You have to look at life itself is a pilgrimage. Therefore, start moving, start talking to strangers!
via Any journey is a pilgrimage « Paulo Coelho’s Blog.

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QOTD::“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous ……

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; …..
…….but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.” — Emerson

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The Town 2010 Quotes

I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we’re gonna hurt some people.
I’m in, but if anything happens to her, if I think anything might happen to her I’m coming back here and I’m killing you at your own shop.
I will never lie to you I will never hurt you and if I lose you I will regret that for the rest of my life. Just wait for me.
No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done… So I got a long road. But I know I’ll see you again, this side or the other.

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rePost:: My belief is that happiness is necessarily transient::Letters of Note: The human race is incurably idiotic

18. My belief is that happiness is necessarily transient. The natural state of a reflective man is one of depression. The world is a botch. Women can make men perfectly happy, but they seldom know how to do it. They make too much effort: they overlook the powerful effect of simple amiability. Women are also the cause of the worst kind of unhappines
via Letters of Note: The human race is incurably idiotic.