tragically unhip | quotes

Our own success, to be real, must contribute to the success of others. {eleanor roosevelt}

Q: You've also had a couple dozen buyout offers for craigslist. Aren't you tempted to cash out, move from your foggy neighborhood, and buy an island somewhere? A: I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values : Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world. {craig newmark, founder of craigslist , in Wired }

"I can say I've had a great run at all of my Olympics. You have to be tough, and if you set a goal for yourself and keep the dream alive, nobody can stop you. It does not mean you have to be No. 1. That's what excellence is. That doesn't always mean you'll get to what other people think is excellent . That's the gold medal that everybody says has eluded me. Do I think I'm a failure? I'm nowhere near being a failure because what God has blessed me with is endurance and mental strength. And regardless of obstacles I'm faced with, I'm going to conquer them.'' {gayle devers, Athens 2004 Olympian}

It seems someone else knows the concept of team. Michael Phelps could have opted to swim the 4x100 Medley Relay tomorrow, but instead wants Crocker to have the chance and a medal as well: "We came into this meet as a team and we're going to leave it as a team," Phelps said. "It's the right thing to do." { scott goldblatt , Athens 2004 Gold Medalist}

"How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now." {gerald jampolsky}

" PAUL HAMM'S fall and rise are what make the Olympics so much more than a sports event. The US gymnast who spun despair into gold on Wednesday gives hope to the whole human endeavor by defusing the word loser ." {Boston Globe, Paul Hamm's Example }

"From our earliest days, we understand that there are tasks ahead of us to accomplish and landmarks to achieve. Life often looks like an obstacle course. In order to maximize success, we spend a good deal of time discussing what stands in the way of it. 1. Declare yourself to be a contribution 2. Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why When you play the contribution game, it is never a single individual who is transformed. Transformation overrides the divisions of identity and possession that are the architecture of the measurement model, recasting the tight pattern of scarcity into a widespread array of abundance." {benjamin zander, The Art of Possibility }

Please sir you would not understand, What's going on Is magical, can't you see That some of us do more than dream Every time I try to leave this place Something inside says, "Keep on keeping, on and on...." Around here {george michael, Patience }

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possivility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!" {soren kierkegaard}

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." {eleanor roosevelt}

“Every dollar I have saved Every winter I have braved Every road that I have paved Leads to somewhere” {ari hest}

“Unless we seek the dream of who we are meant to be, we will never find out what we are really meant to do. Unless we seek the dream of what we are meant to do, we will never find out who we are really meant to be” {old aboriginal saying}

"Here's what I know about the realm of possibility. It is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world's devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us." {david levithan}

"Once you have begun to distinguish that it's all invented , you can create a place to dwell where new invetions are the order of the day. Such a place we call " the universe of possibility "..." {benjamin zander, The Art of Possibility }