Tagged: motivation

Murder of Minutes

Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.

— Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves)

Published on 29th August 2011 12:04 PM.
Filed under: Quote

Ignite Your Soul

Found this great video on YouTube. Powerful stuff when you mix inspirational quotes with art.

Published on 25th August 2011 12:05 AM.
Filed under: Art, Video

Best pep talk ever

This is Al Pacino’s locker room speech from the movie ‘Any Given Sunday’.

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Published on 15th June 2010 12:56 PM.
Filed under: Self Development, Video

Les Brown – You Gotta Be Hungry

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Published on 9th March 2010 9:21 PM.
Filed under: Video

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Start Where You Stand

Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won’t help you in beginning new,
If you have left it all behind at last
Why, that’s enough, you’re done with it, you’re through;

This is another chapter in the book,
This is another race that you have planned,
Don’t give the vanished days a backward look,
Start where you stand.

The world won’t care about your old defeats
If you can start anew and win success;
The future is your time, and time is fleet
And there is much of work and strain and stress;

Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,
Here is a brand-new trial right at hand,
The future is for him who does and dares,
Start where you stand.

Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,
To-day’s the thing, to-morrow soon will be;
Get in the fight and face it unafraid,
And leave the past to ancient history,

What has been, has been; yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead,
Start where you stand.

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by Berton Braley

Photo credit ©  小猫王 

Published on 15th November 2009 3:34 PM.
Filed under: Highlights, Self Development

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The Misfits

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

-Apple Computers Inc


Photo Credit © Geoffroy Demarquet

Published on 1st November 2009 6:15 PM.
Filed under: Highlights, Self Development

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Set Yourself On Fire

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.”  -  Fred Shero (Hockey coach)

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Imagination is a wonderful thing. It is the closest thing we have to magic. It feeds the part of ourselves that is not skin and bone, the part of ourselves that we have forgotten all about. Every once in a while something will happen to you and you will glimpse it. You will see someone do something so brilliant or so beautiful that it will take your breathe away. You have been inspired.

You begin to feel the need to do more, be more. You have seen brilliance and beauty and in that moment, what you have is no longer enough.

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Published on 17th February 2009 2:04 PM.
Filed under: Self Development