It's Finally April 1st in December...

It's been a long time...

Here's a portion of the April 1st Project backlog. More soon. Thanks for reading.

More from the April 1st Project

Here's the latest, and a reminder that you can click and enlarge the images.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. 

The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

-- Unknown

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, 

never regains its original dimensions.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, 

you'll never get it done.

-- Bruce Lee

Go fast alone.

Go far together.

-- African Proverb

Good artists steal.

Bad artists borrow.

-- Alex Katz

Truth, like surgery, may hurt,

but it cures.

-- Han Snyln

Too many people overvalue what they are not,

and undervalue what they are.

-- Malcolm Forbes

Those who do nothing are never wrong.

-- Theodore de Bouville

Don't try to innovate for the future.

Innovate for the present.

-- Peter Drucker

Is anybody alive out there?

-- Bruce Springsteen (to the crowd)

You must understand 'and' -- and more

I just started Volume 5 of the April 1st Project and already so much to share.

'The lone ranger is dead.' -- Warren Bennis

Reading his book On Becoming a Leader and clearly see why he has been so influential.

He shared that Ralph Waldo Emerson used to hail friends he had not seen for a long time with the greeting: 'What's become clear to you since we last met?' -- I love it.

More Bennis: Everything we learn about creativity suggests that money is more often an obstacle to creative work than an incentive.

Discovered BigWords.com and Half.com

"Education...has produced a vast population able to read 

but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

-- G.M. Trevelyan

"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment."

-- Celia Green

Discovered Newswordy and love it. Became addicted to CoverSpy and think it is quite clever.

Ancient Sufi Teaching:

You think 

because you understand one that you must understand two

because one and one makes two. 

But...

you must understand 'and.'

Google went public seven years ago (August 19) at $85 per share. It now trades (on August 19 it did) at $495.

Burger King retired 'The King' -- really?

In a mention about the book The Princess and The Goblin, it was noted that a characters says that a name is one of those things you can give away and keep at the same time. (I really love this thought.)

"Man is only half himself,

the other half is his expression."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only thing that matters in art can't be explained."

-- Braque

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

-- Stephen Hawking

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

-- Albert Camus

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,

while others judge us by what we have already done."

-- Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

"The hills of one's youth are all mountains."

-- Mari Sandoz

"People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments,

while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry."

-- Marie-Jeanne Roland

Books:
Life on the Stoop by Phil Bracco
Blankets by Craig Thompson

Lincoln Monument: Monticello: 1 : 5
The Lincoln Monument appears on the back of the penny, and Monticello appears on the back of a nickel.

Unbowed: Not having submitted to pressure or demands.

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Hope September is going well. Here's to understanding 'and' -- and so much more.

The Close of Volume 4

Here's the latest from the April 1st Project. Finished another volume. Now on Journal #5. Each volume is thicker than the last. So much to capture...

April 1st on August 2nd

Here we go:

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

-- da Vinci

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you are right.

-- Henry Ford

The real purpose of the scientific method 

is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you 

into thinking you know something that you actually don't.

-- Robert Pirsig

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, 

but he who is glad cannot weep.

-- Selma Lagerlof

There are three things extremely hard: 

steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

-- Benjamin Franklin

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

-- Franz Grillparzer

How can you say luck and chance are the same thing? 

Chance is the first step you take, 

luck is what comes afterwards.

-- Amy Tan

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

-- Elizabeth Goudge

Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations --

six if one went to Harvard.

-- Edgar R. Fielder

I learned that you shouldn't go through life 

with a catchers mitt on both hands.

You need to be able to throw something back.

-- Maya Angelou

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, 

nothing is going to get better.

It's not.

-- Dr. Seuss