Bologna, Italy (Taken with instagram)
"The only way to start is to start"
— How to be an artist - Michael Atavar
Video from the RSA - Alain de Botton on Work
Ken Robinson believes that everyone is born with extraordinary capability. So what happens to all that talent as we bump through life, getting by, but never realizing our true potential?
"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self… And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self."
— Kierkegaard
"At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box."
— Italian proverb
Susan Cain on why we need Introverts.
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
— Thoreau
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Listening is as powerful as speaking, reading as writing, asking as answering, and there are no true speakers who are not also listeners, writers who are not readers, answerers who are not also askers"
— Grudin
