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greatness

ames — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:34:28 +0000

“Great art stretches taste, it doesn’t follow tastes.”

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

impossible

ames — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:31:15 +0000

“You did the impossible, because you didn’t realize it was impossible.”

Debi Coleman, from Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

picasso

ames — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:29:31 +0000

“Picasso had a great saying – good artists copy, great artists steal.”

- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

future

ames — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:28:17 +0000

“The best way to predict the future, is to invent it.”

- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

control

ames — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:26:14 +0000

“Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.”

- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

the path

ames — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:24:18 +0000

“I learn’t the truth of the Zen saying that if you are willing to travel around the world to meet a teacher, one will appear next door.”

- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

transformation through beauty

ames — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:21:23 +0000

“It reinforced my sense of what was important – creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”

- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

truly living is an art in itself

ames — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:23:24 +0000

Said an artist whose name I can’t remember from the Auckland Art Gallery.

be

ames — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:28:35 +0000

From: Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

responsibility

ames — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:20:21 +0000

“In short, she said, we are all ultimately responsible for our lives and as such can actively influence the future.”

- Tenzin Palmo, Cave in the Snow

At the moment I am reading the story of how a Londoner (Tenzin Palmo) went to India very young and became a Buddhist Nun, meditating in a cave for many years. A remarkable woman. What strikes me most is her path was so clear to her. I know it strikes me most as I am utterly jealous of her clear direction which is utterly ironic given the quote above.