bright land

“Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.”

Norman Vincent Peale

14 November

Stop looking at the bowling ball with a microscope.

— Commenter on Boing Boing

12 November

Jason Fulford: “Donut Seeds”

Reblogged from thedailywhat

12 November

And you’ll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.

— Charles Bukowski

16 October

So what do we do? Anything - something. So long as we don’t just sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

— Lee Iacocca, former chairman of Chrysler Corp. and overall winner at life.

12 October

While I try to avoid posting anything that’s already gone viral, I can’t help myself here. These students engaged the entire school in their CommTech project and shot it in just one take. One take. Whoa.

2 October

For me, so much of writing, of working on your own, is about confidence. Every single day is trying to tell yourself that somebody might be interested in something you have to say.

— Nick Horby, in an interview for the National Post

2 October

Boasas presents “The News”

6 September

[reblogged from: dadatata]

Reblogged from flickflickflicker

1 September

Mountains out of Molehills

A timeline of global media scare stories

[via: Information is Beautiful]

23 August