Gems from around the place...#57

“Who idolizes the plodding studiers of spreadsheets? Nobody.” - Rob Walker

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs

“Even the best are ineffective unless they can also lead.” - Jim Bolt

“The display is the computer.” - Jen-Hsun Huang

“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.” - Edward Tufte

“Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.” - Douglas Martin

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” - Herman Melville

“Nothing happens unless first a dream.” - Carl Sandburg

“Don't just tell customers you've changed; show them you've changed.” - Saabira Chaudhuri

“[Leonardo Da Vinci] combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” - Ben Shneiderman

“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.” - Paul Rand

“Wimbledon - A private members club that has a bit of a do in the summer...” - Anon but told to me by Ian Ritchie the CEO recently.

And finally, not so much a pithy insight but the more I read this explanation the more it inspires...

“The sound of vision: Vision comes to those who exercise themselves to see what they hear, as they listen, who learn to see what is said and who enter in the experience of simple perceptual connection with the wide open personal completion to the moment's happening. As one develops the maturity of full participation with the moment, so does the perceptual envisioning dexterity. From the normalization of envisioning into one's perceptual connection getting firmly established in the daily living, then comes the envisioning. The envisioning is the imagination's inner screen lighting up in context of where the envisioning grows. To envision is to become aware from soaking in the atmosphere. To envision is the focus coming in contact with the natural deployment grown from the whole envisioning atmosphere I soke in daily. The essence of vision is from the personal relatedness development in its whole simplicity of perceptual connection of the moment. The sign of a vision is confirmed when it gets communicated in the context that it addresses and that the focusing message lights up a healthy stimulation of the imagination screen and creativity from each listener's own personal perceptual relatedness. It is also recognized from the pure joy of effortlessly knowing beyond any possible argument... offered with love in faith and hope.” - Benoit Couture




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“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.” - Robert Fulghum

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Thinking Kindling & Touch Paper #56

“You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.” - George Burns

“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.” - Robert Fulghum

“Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? ” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.” - Charles M. Schwab

“Creating a clear and compelling vision statement is not a simple matter.” - Gordon Quick

“Creative thinking begins with great questions, not answers. Great creative thinkers stay with the question instead of rushing to find an immediate solution. They ask more questions than the average person and are comfortable in the often uncomfortable situation of not immediately having the answer." - Elaine Dundon

“The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.” - Toni Morrison

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” - Chinese Proverb

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” - B. B. King

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” - Nelson Henderson,

“What particular privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the universe?” - Baron Paul Henri Thyry d’Holbach

And finally...

“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




John Caswell I Group Partners I http://www.grouppartnerswiki.net | SKYPE John Caswell | Weblog http://johncaswell.typepad.com/my_weblog/

“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.” - Robert Fulghum

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