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.
