Disposition

Maintain a cheerful disposition. At all times.
The utter luck of being alive even when you are unclogging the toilet.

Divine instrument

Your mind is a divine instrument.
Use it for what it is.

Dec 22,2016

People

Done well, "people over profits" develops people and increases profits.


- Wes Gay
Forbes article on LinkedIn

People want to help

People want to help.
They don't know how to make that first step.

- nivash

Impractical

I have always been impractical

~ Jayaa

Gifts

BEAR GIFTS

Don't

Don't let yourself be left behind

Don't let yourself be defeated

Systematic

Kindness

Helping

I have too many interests in helping people for me not to be involved in the helping sector

- Jayaa

Turning back

We are very fragile creatures.
We can go either way...
At any point, we have the ability to turn back

Fail

You're not a write-off if you fail

Preeti Sudhakar

Prove yourself

Prove yourself

Rathan Sudhakar

Little

Make the most of little assignments
-Dave Kuhl

Artists feel things

I'm an artist, and artists feel things, we distrust these studies. As a poet I wanted to observe, I wanted to feel things.

Kenneth Goldsmith

Digital archivists

When a D.J. brings a laptop full of music samples to a club he doesn't play an instrument, but we don't argue that he isn't doing something creative in mixing those sounds to create his own effect. In the online world the only thing you're the master of is your collection, your archive, and how you use it, how you remix it. We become digital archivists, collecting and cataloging things. I find it exciting.

Kenneth Goldsmith 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/education/edlife/kenneth-goldsmith-on-wasting-time-on-the-internet.html

Tolstoy

The soul meaning of life is to serve humanity

Team

To create a powerful impact, you need to create a powerful team.
- Jayaa

Necessity

Necessity overrides all phobia
- Lisa O

Energy

The law of karma can be explained through the law of energy.

Much better

The world is much better if we all love and care and share...

Make it matter

Joel Ruffin

You are forced to proceduralize being creative and that's difficult!

Bley

I am not interested in organizing.
I want to write the next piece.

Carla Bley, nyt may 11

Love

I'm always lobbying for the irrepressible strength of love - Gregory porter

( NYT may 11)

Sap

The worlds challenges are our challenges

You're the one who chose to use me like a fool

Mr Garcia!

Live free

break free from the office more quickly and get to the outside world—where real living is done.

- extract from hbr article on productivity (mar 2016)

Safe

Create a shelter

For art
For thought
For love
For life

We should constantly remind ourselves who we are and what we stand for

Skye to mommy

You a big part of that big shot guy..

Filter

You've got to filter these people in....

( -j on the underprivileged)

Einstein

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

— Albert Einstein

Staying ahead

Always stay ahead of your clients.
The last thing you want is your clients chasing back on status.

- Lisa

Movement

Don't hold me back.
Help move things forward

Focus on the Work

As the first woman to win album of the year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there: there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments.

But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going, you'll look around and you'll know it was you and the people who love you who put you there and that will be the greatest feeling in the world.

Taylor Swift

2016 Grammy awards

Unforgiving

Customers are unforgiving

- Rathan Sudhakar
( thoughts on execution of Target presence in Canada)

Wasting

Wasting (when other people are in need)
is a crime

There are always people in need.

Wasting is a crime

History

It is important to uncover the history of everything.

At a workplace, you need to understand her history and equip yourself with the information to succeed.

-Lm feb 2016

Erasure

Who has silenced whom?
Who is now hoarding attention?
(Why is x described as white instead of half Asian - American during the trial? )

-parul Sehgal

Tertullian

Hope

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
(Attribution required)

Gornick

I approached them like an anthropologist meeting the natives—

In writing about feminism when it was happening

The job was mine

I interviewed Dorothy Day, and I discovered that the style of the moment, personal journalism, was a natural for me. The job was mine.

The job was mine

Gornick

My mother was a romantic, so she read novels, many from the nineteenth century. She had only a high school education, but she was one of those immigrants who grew up on the Lower East Side and went to every free lecture in sight. When I was a young woman I began to give her books to read. She read whatever I gave her, and I would say, Ma, how was the book? She'd narrow her eyes, look steadily at me, and say, Powerful, really powerful. Or she'd say, Not powerful, not at all powerful. But once I gave her a two-volume autobiography by a popular English novelist of the early twentieth century named Storm Jameson. Jameson was a lousy novelist, but when she was in her late seventies she wrote this autobiography called Journey from the North—she came from Yorkshire—and that was her master­piece, the one book she wrote brilliantly. A week after I'd given my mother the book, I came in and there she was, lying on the couch, reading it. I said, Oh Ma, how are you enjoying that book? She sat up, swung her legs over the side of the couch, narrowed her eyes, as always, but this time she said, It's as though she's just in the room with me. And then she said, I'm going to feel lonely when I finish this book. And I thought, What more could any writer ask of a reader?

Elizabeth Fink

What a thrill it is to defend the Constitution against the domestic enemy of the (American) government. I hope to do it until I die.

Crazy

You've got to let a women be crazy

- Jayaa

Thoreau

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Priorities

I just want mommy to be safe.
Family always comes first

(Advice to me when mom was sick)
- Skye

Clarity

Clarity Is my deliverable

Good citizenry

Good business doesn't have to be at odds with good citizenry.

- on Rajan Anandan
Foreign policy magazine
Dec 2015

All the Savages

who have destroyed the sanctity, industry and sanctuary of the workplace

It is a place of work.

Like it is a place of worship.

Now it is nameless, faceless, dark, ruinous, degenerate, meaningless, vapid, toxic

it has no shape or form, 

human-less

Rathan

Float Ideas

Maya

There's so much emotion in this picture- you can almost hear it...
( on seeing Skye's Polaroid)

Understanding

Understanding unlocks everything