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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 2008 - Making the Transition

Inspiration, Uncategorized, Video

World renowned thanatologist, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross speaks on making the transition. From “Graceful Passages” found at wisdomoftheworld.com

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Run Lornah Run

Uncategorized, Video

The passion of a social entrepreneur in Kenya has created a solution that will dramatically improve the quality of life for countless people.

Giving women the freedom to run and become professional runners.

A simple idea that can change the world most profoundly.

Synopsis of the video Run Lornah Run
Click here for information on Lornah’s high altitude training camp.
Click here for an interview with Lornah Kiplagat.

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JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure

Ideas, Inspiration, Uncategorized, Video

At her Harvard University commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”

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Get Angry

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Everybody can get angry - that’s easy.

But getting angry at the right person,
with the right intensity,
at the right time,
for the right reason and
in the right way
- that’s hard.

- Aristotle

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Getting People to Understand Something

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It is difficult to get people to understand something when their salary (or other reward) depends upon them not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair

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Outsiders

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The 4 steps to outsiders resisting your ideas:

1. They ignore you.
2. They laugh at you.
3. They oppose you.
4. They say they were always with you.

- Gandhi

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The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames

Charles & Ray Eames, Creativity, Design, TED Lectures, Uncategorized, Video

Take your pleasure seriously.

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Be somebody…

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I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
- Lily Tomlin

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Vegetarian…

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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning towards sunlight.
–Rita Rudner

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If you hate…

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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

- Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

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