June 2010
38 posts
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-20) →
Band of Horses (7)
Alexi Murdoch (5)
Tosca (4)
The Avett Brothers (4)
La Strada (3)
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It is a truism of the new economy that the ultimate success of any enterprise...
– The New-Boy Network from What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
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Never confuse motion with action
– Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, statesman
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →
Alexi Murdoch (19)
Midlake (5)
Tosca (2)
Cibelle (1)
The Dining Rooms (1)
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Leadership should arise innately from the drive to do well for the company,...
– Bill Witherspoon, founder of The Sky Factory, as quoted by Inc
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors....
– William Faulkner, American author
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6) →
Tosca (16)
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (10)
Nick Drake (9)
Gillian Welch (4)
Band of Horses (3)
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If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your...
– Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (Born June 8th, 1867)
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Panic, in this sense, is the opposite of choking. Choking is about thinking too...
– Malcolm Gladwell in What the Dog Saw - The Art of Failure.
Compelling explanation as Gladwell explains a situation between two scuba divers. I have enjoyed this chapter as I evaluate how I have reacted under pressure.
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He set quite an example. He was more like a parent than a coach. He really was...
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, on the death of legendary basketball coach John Wooden.
Incredible man and testament to service above self
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening...
– Thomas Jefferson
Fitting quote used in Malcolm Gladwell’s book What the Dog Saw -Something Borrowed: Should a Charge of Plagiarism Ruin Your Life.
Sir Ken Robinson - Bring on the learning revolution…certainly worth 16:48 minutes of your time if shifting standardized schools to personalized learning environments is of interest.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30) →
Ben Harper (9)
The Avett Brothers (3)
Son Volt (3)
Ben Harper & Relentless7 (2)
Air (2)
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