| If you can hold on,
hold on.
- Killers, All These Things That I've Done
I know what I know if you know what I mean.
- Edie Brickell
Keep it simple
- Popular expression
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that
one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome
while trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington
What's the point of new blood if you won't let it circulate?
- Conversation
Visitors will know they have arrived in a real place
when they deal with clerks who do not wear uniforms, where they
find in shops well-crafted articles whose makers live nearby,
when they discover on restaurant menus dishes they could not
order anywhere else.
- Scott Russell Sanders, foreward, Civic Tourism
If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything
at all.
- Futurama
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and
not quality.
- George Santayanatee
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
So if there is a global village, it is not a very equitable
one, and if there is a tragedy of our times, it may be that
we are all interconnected but we fail to see it and take care
of our relationships with others. For me, the ultimate promise
of digital technology is that it might enable us to truly see
one another once again and all the ways we are interconnected.
It might help us create a truly global view that can spark the
kind of empathy we need to create a better world for all of
humankind.
- Michael Wesch, A
Brief Interview - John Battelle
He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the
treasury and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. And
he said, 'Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more
than all of them; for they all contributed out of their abundance,
but she out of her poverty put in all the living that she had.'
- Luke
21
If we live as if it matters, and it doesn't matter, then it
doesn't matter. If we live as if it doesn't matter, and it matters,
then it matters.
- Popular saying
You'll never know what is enough unless you know what is more
than enough. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
If the fool would persist in her folly she would become wise.
- William Blake
Tsimba Itsoka (There is no footprint without the foot)
- Shona proverb and Oliver
Mtukudzi's new CD
What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more
than to think what we are doing.
- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range
of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range
of our intellectual ray -- we are not looking for it. So, in
the largest sense, we find only the world we look for.
- Henry D. Thoreau
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry D. Thoreau
Our students have changed radically. Today's students are no
longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
- Marc Prensky, Digital
Natives, Digital Immigrants (PDF)
Institutions everywhere, from corporations to the military,
are discovering that maintaining a healthy balance of 'bottoms
up' management (i.e. listening) with the old 'top-down' management
is a far better way to be successful. It is high time we stop
hiding behind our teaching and administration desks, afraid
of our own kids, and learn to dialog with them about their own
learning. After all, isn't that what real education is all about?
- Marc Prensky, To
educate, we must listen (PDF)
When each of these three elements of vision -- concern for
excellence, for people and for the wider environment -- are
present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits
into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Choosing a guidebook is not as simple as it used to be, back
when Lonely
Planet guides were usually the best choice for independent
budget travelers and Fodor's guides were for wealthy retirees.
Now Lonely Planet is the biggest guidebook publisher in the
world and Fodor's is trying hard to be more hip and contemporary.
If anything is consistent, it's that nearly all the guidebook
publishers have moved away from serving a niche: they seem to
be doing their best to please everyone, in all budget ranges,
and it's getting harder to find much opinionated personality
anymore.
- Tim
Leffel, Guidebook Smackdown
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of
the fight in the dog that counts.
- Popular saying
The problem is that people who have the power don't care.
- Conversation
Measure twice, cut once.
- Popular saying
Do consultants add enough value to earn their keep?
- Conservation with a consultant
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
- Desiderius
Erasmus
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