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..because everything has a story...

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4 months ago

"I have no faith in the ‘justice’ system. Perhaps my actions today, and this letter, will send a stronger message to the public. Either way, I have lost control over this situation, and this is my only way to regain control.”
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“Remember,” he wrote, “it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s whether I win or lose, and sitting in jail for 20, 10, or even 5 years for a crime I didn’t commit is not me winning. I die free."

- the suicide note of Jonathon James, who was the first juvenile to be put into confinement for a federal cybercrime case.

- I have heard the argument against doing things based on passion in terms of making money and I agree…BUT…most of the time when you actually get what you want doing something you hate or detest, there is a void. Maybe instead of making choices based on money, you should make your choices based on other things first…just saying.

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4 months ago | Notes: 67

"Ideas, in a sense, are overrated. Of course, you need good ones, but at this point in our supersaturated culture, precious few are so novel that nobody else has ever thought of them before. It’s really about where you take the idea, and how committed you are to solving the endless problems that come up in the execution."

- Simply lovely. In Be Wrong as Fast as You Can, New York Times magazine editor Hugo Lindgren lays it all out on the line, in a first-person confessional with a moral for us all. Now, please excuse me but I must stop procrastinating and reading Everything On The Web and get back to it. (via thoughtyoushouldseethis)

Source: thoughtyoushouldseethis

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4 months ago

"The moment there is suspicion about someone’s motives everything becomes tainted…” -Gandhi"

- http://wilreynolds.com/post/39312383467/the-lesson-of-the-year-never-stop-building-trust

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4 months ago

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I’m not committed to any specific endeavor. Not a family or a cause or a field of enterprise. Not an ideal of service or sacrifice, not an art, not a people or a calling…..

Is an acorn committed to becoming an oak? An acorn can only respond to the imperative of life within it.
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- http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2013/01/committed-to-what/

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4 months ago

"Attention is like water. It flows. It’s liquid. You create channels to divert it, and you hope it flows in the right way. - Apollo Robbins"

This is in reference to an incredible article found in the New Yorker called the A Pickpocket’s Tale in which Apollo talks about his method of stealing things and how much it relies on not only his expertise but the momentum shifts of the victim itself. It could be symbolic of the attention economy and how information flows as well.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/07/130107fa_fact_green?currentPage=all&src=longreads

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4 months ago

"Sometimes the hardest things to help others understand are the things that come so easily to us. Perhaps this is because we lack the ability to truly empathize in this area. We have never had to learn or struggle with the process. That maybe it is best not to learn from the master of a thing but, instead, seek the advice of a more advanced student. -Patrick R Hone"

- http://patrickrhone.com/2012/12/29/outliner/

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5 months ago | Notes: 172

"He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup."

- Noel Gallagher on his brother, Liam (via austinkleon)

(via austinkleon)

Source: gigwise.com

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6 months ago | Notes: 594

(via terribleminds)

Source: openroadmedia

..because everything has a story...

"Whether you’re a startup or a writer or whatever industry you choose, the more you can lean toward what your passion is, what you feel like doing the most, the better it is - Dave Pell @ nextdraft"

"The moment there is suspicion about someone’s motives everything becomes tainted…” -Gandhi"

"I’m not committed to any specific endeavor. Not a family or a cause or a field of enterprise. Not an ideal of service or sacrifice, not an art, not a people or a calling….. Is an acorn committed to becoming an oak? An acorn can only respond to the imperative of life within it."

"Attention is like water. It flows. It’s liquid. You create channels to divert it, and you hope it flows in the right way. - Apollo Robbins"

"He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup."

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I’m not committed to any specific endeavor. Not a family or a cause or a field of enterprise. Not an ideal of service or sacrifice, not an art, not a people or a calling…..

Is an acorn committed to becoming an oak? An acorn can only respond to the imperative of life within it.
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