November 2011
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AIS selection camp: Don’t keep your courage in a... →
Very deliberately, we were exhausted physically within the first 3 days. We were given no feedback, either positive or negative. We had no spare time to ourselves. We were never told more than a few hours in advance what challenge we would face next. We were sleep-deprived, woken unexpectedly, and at times not fed. Our challenges took us far outside our comfort zones. Our performances – good or...
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“There is no better strategy than to trust in the fundamental interconnectedness...”
– Matt Webb (via robertogreco)
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“Honesty in the absence of compassion becomes cruelty. Tenacity unmediated by...”
– Tony Schwartz The Four Paradoxes of Great Performance via The 99 Percent
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“In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German...”
– via Gert Dumbar, jacecooke
“In lives of the little old generation, film camera existed for granted. Everyone...”
– Hideaki Hamada - The important thing of photography Translated by Tetsuro Nohara
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“Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding...”
– Tadao Ando
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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak
I think of this story often (it is one of my favorites) as a reminder of two things
No matter how famous you are, or how important you might become never lose the ability to be surprised and touched by the love of strangers.
Remember the love you had for things as a child, one...
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“Don’t make something beautiful and then think about what makes it culturally...”
– (via designxculture)
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