Observations from around and about...

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” - Bob Dylan

“Great discoveries and improvement invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.  I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.” - Alexander Graham Bell. Inventor

“Machinery has made us more efficient on one level, but it also has made more work.” - Genevieve Bell, Director, Intel's Digital Home Group

“To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?” -  Katherine Graham

“If there is no way, we will make a way.” - Hannibal

“We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.” - R. D. Laing
                    
“People are drowning in popular culture.” - Cathy Deely, Director of Marketing, Gardner Museum

“We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. And always when you’re going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. But all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It’s a very interesting shift of perspective - Joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes.” - Joseph Campbell in Sukhavati

“As one gets older, one begins to realize that the chaos of the world is too great for anyone to put order into it to any degree that makes any real difference.” - Albert Einstein

“Problem wickedness is not about a higher degree of complexity, it is about a fundamentally different kind of challenge to the design process, one that makes solution secondary and problem understanding central.” - Horst Rittel

And Finally

“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” - R. D. Laing



John Caswell I Group Partners I http://grouppartnerswiki.net | SKYPE John Caswell

“Companies that squelch creativity can no longer compete with companies that champion creativity. “ - Hugh MacLeod

P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to

Wisdom, Insight and Observation...

“Everybody says we just want you to be like last time. Last time we lost!” -  John McCain on his campaign for US Presidency.

“The road to the heart is the ear.” - Voltaire

“Individuals living in the intersection of social worlds are at higher risk of having good ideas.” Ron Burt

“We look at our systems and see a reflection of ourselves, then spend most of our career replacing the "mirror" rather than doing the much harder work of re-architecting ourselves.” - Stuart Robbins

“If you want to make something pop, you have to do it through something fun.” - Rafi Haladjian, cofounder, Violet

“The fastest group doesn't win if they're running in the wrong direction.” - Ross Willis, founder, Advanced Online

"We're really interested in what happens when you throw a lot of brainpower at complex issues.” - David Rejeski, director, Serious Games Initiative

And finally:

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.”  - Albert Ellis





John Caswell I Group Partners I http://grouppartnerswiki.net | SKYPE John Caswell

“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?  In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet” - Woody Allen

P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to