As a mentor, your job is not to dash the dream, but add realism to the endeavor. Don’t tell them they cant be astronauts, tell the entrepreneur that they have to study math to be an astronaut, and give them the direction to determine if they even like math.
Persistence isn’t just key — it is everything. Getting in the ring is hard, but staying in the ring is even harder, especially when you feel beaten down, tired and alone.
/via Justin Kan
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
[ via Albert Einstein ]
Great people talk about ideas.
Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people,
and then, sadly, there are the people who love to talk about themselves.
[ via @gapingvoid ]
The problem is that often less takes longer than more. It’s the irony of less. Less is more powerful but it’s often harder to produce.
[ via When in Doubt, Leave it Out (Why Less is More) | Both Sides of the Table ]
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
[ via Charles Kingsley ]
“Weniger, aber besser”
[ via Dieter Rams, Industrial Designer - as quoted in Future Simple - What Every Entrepreneur and Product Manager Should Learn From Dieter Rams ]
Sometimes you gotta go through hell to get to heaven.
[ via Maino ]
The enemy is not Islam.
The enemy is not Arabs.
The enemy is hate.
[ via MTV ]
Before we get to the solution, let’s talk a little about what the problem itself is.
[ via Sid Savara ]