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“Efforts will be rewarded in heaven. Down here on Earth, we want results” - Ronald Baker, author and co-founder of the Verasage Insitute

Ron’s wife, a school teacher, brought this simple, yet profound, thought to our attention this week: as a generation, we are digital immigrants, our children are digital natives.
For the press and most people over 30 the evolution from the iPod, to the iPhone to the iPad has been dramatic. For younger folks, it is no [...]

Katie Meyers: People who risk their lives for others. Military,
firemen/women, police, day care workers, etc. Thank you!
Jason Hamilton: Family, Friends and Football.
Katie Shamberg: Grilled Cheese, Guiness, and Great Friends and Family
Jeff Reynolds: The obvious: family, friends and freedom.
The others: sunshine, laughs, wine, stories, creativity, coral reefs,
non-commercial holidays and too much more to list.

Jennifer Colson: life, [...]

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -Albert Einstein

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he
grows up.”  -Pablo Picasso

“If you are not killing plants, you are not growing as a gardener.”- Tony Avent, quoting J.C. Raulston (via @scgardeningnews)
Something to think about in business, too.

“It’s better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you’re stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
-Mark Twain

“The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.”
-Tom Peters

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
- Peter Drucker