NOYB. NOMB.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

- Paulo Coelho

Sensational commute.

I never travel without my diary.  One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

- Oscar Wilde

Success.

Success was the goal for this generation and to a startling extent they have atained it, and now we venture to say that, if intimately approached, nine in ten would confess that success is only a decoration they wished to wear; what they really wanted is something deeper and richer than that."


-Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Looking Back Eight Years (1927)

echo sunset, pasadena ca

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

-Edith Wharton

credibility counts

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.

-Edward R Murrow (1908-1965)

embracing success

"I love my success... I love that people know me and say hello. Tell me the downside. When people talk about the burdens of success, you want to spit in their fucking face." — Joan Rivers

work without effort

Think of the small as large,
and the few as many.
Confront the difficult
while it is still easy;
accomplish the great task
by a series of small acts.

Act without doing;
work without effort.

-Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

warren thinks we're "fabulous"

“If I had to put all of my net worth into stock, that would be the stock.”

- Warren Buffet regarding Wells Fargo
(WFC 5/1/09 $19.61)

true style

"My style, who I am, is not about my clothing...I am myself, I've always been myself and you don't judge me by what I wear. You judge my by what I say."

-Whoopi Goldberg, responding to criticisms on her clothes

top

Is it wrong to use your sex appeal?
Well, not if you’re hungry

Is it the only reason you should use it?
Probably. Because you know, if women could sleep their way to the top there would be many more women at the top.

-Gloria Steinem
(from an interview with RussiaToday.com 3/3/2009)

aint it the truth...

I'm always in the mood for Randy Newman lately. And that's not necessarily a good thing. It seems like whenever the country's kind of at a low point, I’m always in the mood for Randy Newman.
-Sarah Vowell on KCRW

perception

"You see things in a different way, I think, if you've ever taken music seriously. Even if you're not a great musician"

-Bill Clinton, 2008
from Specatacle, Elvis Costello with...

the professional perspective

"Work is much more fun than fun"

-Noel Coward (b.1899, d.1973)

tell 'em, liz

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."

-Elizabeth Taylor

renewable resource - gratitude

"We are all walking around with an amazing resource: gratitude. It helps us express and enjoy, appreciate, be thankful and satisfied with a little effort. We all have it, and we need to use it to improve our quality of life."

- Steven Toepfer, Kent State University

american badass

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (b.1815 d.1902)

cleansing by fire

“The feelings right now are difficult to describe. One of the hazards of monasticism throughout the centuries is we become attached to what we have or where we are. This is simply a reminder that what we are called to is not our stuff. This is a cleansing by fire.”

-Brother Brown, Mount Calvary Monastery

Monks Turn to Reflection With Monastery in Ruins from NYTimes.com

gotta get after it

"Never mistake motion for action"

-Ernest Hemingway

a true respect for work

"Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits"

-Studs Terkel (b.1912 d. 2008)

author of Working (1974)

crisis advice

"In a crisis - don't just do something, stand there."

- Simon Johnson Economics Professor MIT
Here's What I'm Doing from NPR's Marketplace