All things pass...

All things pass...
Patience attains all it strives for.

- Mother Teresa

The greatest challenge on the horizon

The greatest business and engineering challenge on the horizon, is "to organize information in a way that allows you to live the way you want to live, to take time off with your kids without fear you're going to miss out on something."

- Jeong Kim, President, Bell Labs

Ideas...

When you think, "I wish I could think of an idea like that," remember: ideas like that are all around you. But you ignore them because they look wrong or are often overlooked. If you work on overlooked problems, you're more likely to discover new things.

- Paul Graham
Essay: Six Principles for Making New Things

Treat it like a business...

Too many entrepreneurs run their business like a hobby. If you want your business to pay you like a business, then treat it like a business.

- JC Williams, President & CEO, Fehu Uruz Investor Services

REM sleep

People who sleep in an east-west position have far shorter rapid eye movement or REM sleep cycles... compared with north-south sleepers who got more REM sleep.

- REUTERS

The bigger pie...

Accept a smaller piece of a bigger pie, rather than a big piece of a small pie.

- Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior VP, Google, Inc.

Look into...

"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into."

- Ansel Adams

Achieve your dream

People put a lot of obstacles in front of their dreams. It's actually not that hard to achieve them - it sounds cliche', but the biggest obstacles are in your mind. Just write down what you want to do, write out the steps, and just take the plunge!

- Melissa O'young

Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you ... plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

- Jeremiah 29:11

Red Wine May Slow Aging

New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aging - Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human lifespan, researchers say in a new report that is likely to give impetus to the rapidly growing search for longevity drugs. "The upside is so huge that if we are right, the company that dominates the sirtuin space could dominate the pharmaceutical industry and change medicine..."

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New Ideas

If you're not allowed to implement new ideas, you stop having them. And vice versa: when you can do whatever you want, you have more ideas about what to do.

- Paul Graham

Opportunities

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

What success means to you

Each of us views success in a different way. For some, success means advanced academic degrees or continual upward progression on the career and money ladder. For others, it is spending quality time with family or helping others in the community. Many of us get tripped up by following others' definition of success and wonder why we still aren't happy when we attain our goals. The key to fulfillment is to define what success means to you and make a plan to get there.

- Pamela Slim, author of 'Get a Life' blog

Goals

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

- Diana Scharf Hunt

Get those washboard abs!

If you're afraid that obtaining washboard abs is completely out of your reach, you are not alone. There's more to it than just doing a thousand crunches a day. Unless you modify your diet and burn belly fat in addition to those abdominal exercises, that six-pack will always just look like a keg.

Here's great tips and videos on how to get your washboard -->
How to Get Six-Pack Abs

Live...

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

- Marge Piercy

Take the chance

"Breakthrough ideas are around the corner, but most of us are failing to take a chance on them."

- Larry Page, Google co-founder and President.

No problem.

It's not a problem until it becomes a problem.

Photograph the soul

"When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls."

- Ted Grant

Innovation

How is your company going to compete in the world? If you can't compete with low-cost labor, you have to compete with innovations. How to innovate? Here are some ideas:

• Balance revolutionary with very useful.
• Incorporate big and small ideas.
• The goal of the innovator is to have a positive impact on your company, your country and yourself.
• Innovation, like growing up, sometimes needs to get done in the midst of adversity.
• Remember, the transistor was invented by three people, not 30,000. The laser was invented by two.
• Innovative ideas start small.
• Never lose sight of the actual goal of innovation: not new technology, but what new technology can deliver to us - awareness, insight, interaction. And freedom.

- Excerpted from a Fast Company interview with Jeong Kim, President, Bell Labs