"It used to be that in order to reach more people than you could talk to in a day, you had to be rich and famous and powerful, be a celebrity, a politician, a CEO, but that’s not true today. Now ordinary people have voice, not just those of us lucky to go to HBS, but anyone with access to Facebook, Twitter, a mobile phone. This is disrupting traditional power structures and leveling traditional hierarchy. Voice and power are shifting from institutions to individuals, from the historically powerful to the historically powerless, and all of this is happening so much faster than I could have imagined when I was sitting where you are today and Mark Zuckerberg was 11 years old."
— Sheryl Sandberg, speech at Harvard Business School
"We experiment; we assume; we fail; we experiment some more. Finally, tentatively, we succeed."
— Megan Garber on the City of Tomorrow and the dead dream of the dirigible. She continues, “[They are] a timely reminder not just of the short, happy life of airship hegemony, but also of the crazy contingency of history. …. Like the hot-air balloons that preceded it and the wing-thrusted planes that would render it all but obsolete, the Zeppelin represented a hope for a future that might have been, but, finally, was not — an accident of history whose demise was as inevitable as humans seeking the sky.” (via bobulate)
"When you know you’ve been blessed and know you have a set of gifts, how do you maximize those gifts so you’re impacting the greatest number of people?"
— Michelle Obama
"It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything."
— Fight Club
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
— Teddy Roosevelt
"People are incredibly resilient, more so than they realize. Few people are ever pushed to their absolute limit. My grandparents on my father’s side survived the Holocaust. They spent years in ghettos and concentration camps. Talk about pushing past one’s limits. People survive horrible, horrible tragedies and experiences every single day. And most persevere. You’ve gotta believe in the human spirit and will to live."
— http://www.instigatorblog.com/remembering-my-brother/2012/04/22/
"Connecting people to fix the world over time is the deepest spiritual value you can have"
— Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist
"@SirKenRobinson: If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original."
— Sir Ken Robinson in Schools Kill Creativity. (via thegodfounder)
