September 2008
7 posts
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
The soul is healed by being with children. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, novelist (1821-1881)
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will...”
“Ancient musical instruments can now be heard for the first time in hundreds of...”
– BIOS: IT Reviewed
Concussions Exact Toll on Football Players Long... →
“It is hardly possible to overrate the value … of placing human beings in contact...”
– /Message: John Stuart Mills
August 2008
6 posts
“The vast majority of children are not gifted. Only 2 to 5 percent of kids fit...”
– Is your kid really gifted? Probably not - CNN.com
“We’re not for everybody.”
– How to Build Community | Nate Ritter
“Auditions were held by the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra to test the pluck of...”
– Orchestra hopefuls crowd Strathmore auditions
“The edges. Always keep pushing on the edges.Seth Godin”
– Nate Ritter
“The number of children living in poverty increased by a half-million, to 13.3...”
– The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management
Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
July 2008
3 posts
“you can’t control everything, but you can control your values.”
– Lose Control, But Not of Your Values | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network
“We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not...”
– Money.Power.Wisdom - Got Any Red Marbles?
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. -Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845)
June 2008
2 posts
“I think innovation is overrated. Customers don’t care about how innovative...”
– Debunking the Myths of Innovation: An Interview with Scott Berkun
“Productivity is for machines. If you can measure it, robots should do it.”
– /Message: Kevin Kelly on Productivity
May 2008
15 posts
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
“written on the packet of guitar strings Tom Sharp bought were the words:...”
– Feedback - 21 May 2008 - New Scientist
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry. -Lao Tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE)
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything --anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in....
George Bernard Shaw wrote: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Zig Ziglar: “Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down, or polishes you up, depends upon what you are made of!”
Theodore Roosevelt from 1899 – “Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.”
From the journal of the Royal United Services Institute dated July 2007: “Even if looking into the future can be demonstrated usually to be futile, you still need to practise; you might get better, and one day you strike lucky and you hit a tipping point. As the wisdom of snooker players informs us: ‘The more I practise, the luckier I become’. Being struthonian is not an option.”
“what would I do if there were a big blue sky and I knew I couldn’t fail? It sets...”
– » Blog Archive » Fundraising words of wisdom
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” —Albert Einstein
“Such lists would be more responsibly named “prevailing practices”,...”
– Nonprofit Online News: Playing it Safe is a Trap: Five Syndromes in Online Marketing
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. -M.Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author (1936-2005)
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? -Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. -General Peyton C. March (1864-1955)
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. -Steven Wright, comedian (b. 1955)
April 2008
11 posts
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. -Antonio Porchia, writer (1886-1968)
“Taking music lessons can strengthen connections between the two hemispheres of...”
– Music Builds Bridges in the Brain — Miller 2008 (416): 1 — ScienceNOW
Michele Hanson: Boys like bashing drums and girls... →
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. -Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)
“We have followed you this far; you have not led us astray. Forgive me, I was...”
– the glowing edge: favorite quote from LOTR
Cognitive Dissonance in Monkeys - The Monty Hall... →
“That was a problem for the school system last Friday because at least seven...”
– Archives: Story
“Some airline personnel, especially when tired or stressed, are sticklers for a...”
– Traveling With a Moody Old Friend That’s Tightly Strung - New York Times
“the French modernist master Olivier Messiaen, who died in 1992 at 83, was truly...”
– Olivier Messiaen - Music - New York Times
MICROGIVING.COM →
“And lastly, I’d like to thank those of you who are really digging deep for these...”
– Violent Acres - Like You, But With Poor Impulse Control
March 2008
11 posts
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
“Overall, the performance he drew from the orchestra wasn’t outrageously...”
– Unmistakable excitement on Dudamel’s first night - San Jose Mercury News
“Demographers tell us that by 2050, white Americans will no longer be the...”
– Ohio.com - Hispanic listeners embraced
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
“everything we’ve heard - every breathless plaudit, every word of seemingly...”
– Review: Dudamel dazzles in Symphony debut
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S. (1809-1865)