January 2012
18 posts
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act...
– Peter Drucker
Principles exist so that you can see beyond...
“As we peer into society’s future, we-you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss of their political and spiritual heritage.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
survival is overrated, and i find myself reminded that an unshared life is not...
– white collar
Buddha's Four Noble Truths
“Everyone suffers”
“We create much of our own suffering”
“We have a choice not to contribute to our suffering”
“There are ways we can go about changing how we think, perceive and feel”
In 'That used to be US' - Thomas Friedman and...
…That is the bet that China has made in its twelfth 5 year plan, authorized in March 2011, which stresses that development of renewable energy will be the key to China’s energy security for the next decade…Moreover, renewable energy depends on new technology…”Chinese solar panel manufacturers accounted for slightly over half the world’s production last year..In...
It is human nature to remember and latch on to things that confirm your world...
– Joseph Romm
I want to be free. I’m not asking for superficial freedom, the freedom to...
– Irène Némirovsky, Suite Francaise (via hateshiploveship)
better free than ignorant
Growing companies kill internal jobs by economic darwinism.
– John Jazwiec
We still think too narrowly and too closely about ourselves as individuals and...
– (via blinksoflife)
damn.
nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable
– Shakespeare
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...
– Neil Gaiman (via happycollision)
best New Year advice ever