A Girl You Should Date « nona merah. Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads. She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. Buy her another cup of coffee. It’s easy to date a girl who reads. She has to give it a shot somehow. Fail her. Why be frightened of everything that you are not? If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. You will propose on a hot air balloon. You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. Or better yet, date a girl who writes. – Rosemarie Urquico – Like this: Like Loading...
The Arrow of time. 5 great ways to end a speech. The moment of truth has arrived. You had them at the open. The audience was clearly focused, nodding as you delivered your message. Eyes locked as you wove through a carefully crafted medley of stories, anecdotes and analogies, all supporting your message. The majority of your audience agrees with what your remarks. The time has come to conclude, at which point you exclaim: “In conclusion, I appreciate your time. Thank you!” And then nothing happens. Everyone quietly claps, or just nods, and leaves the auditorium or conference room.
What can you do to prevent such a muted response? 1. ”In order to guarantee that we save ______ tomorrow, we need to _____ today. 2. “So, coach entered the locker room after a pretty tough game in which a number of us had standout performances, and the result was … a big loss. 3. “What choice will you make when you leave here today? 4. “We can have____, or we can have ______. 5. Matt Eventoff of Princeton Public Speaking tweets at @Matt_Eventoff. Solar System Scope.
Destructables | A DIY site for projects of protest and creative dissent. Paris | How not to be a tourist. Paris is a 2.2 million inhabitant city that welcomes 28 million tourists each year; it is then tough not to be a tourist! Just quickly forget Charles De Gaulle airport to dive fast into a city that looks like a live museum, a busy noisy crowded diverse jungle, a unique experience of lights and shadows. Compared to other capital cities Paris is not too vast; taxis are expensive and somehow difficult to grab, so go for public transport or just walk or bike while staying away from crazy drivers who don’t give way. Left Bank, Right Bank: both sides of the Seine River are worth the trip. Go Right for iconic-boring places (Arc de Triomphe, Montmartre) or hidden gems (streets and fashion at Le Marais, Belleville Chinatown, Marché d’Aligre).
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Newer PostOlder PostHome. The Last Words Of 25 Famous Dead Writers. Index. 9 Reasons Why Failure Is Not Fatal. Written by the99percent Illustration: Oscar Ramos Orozco Failure. Fear of it is universal, experiencing it is inevitable, and running from it is dependably routine. As a culture we can’t seem to shake the negativity of the term – even though most success stories have a shared foundation in some kind of accidental realization, wrong-footed first attempt, or outright error. 2.
You once described the inventor’s life as “one of failure.” Not all failures lead to solutions, though. 3. 4. The business literature nowadays talks a lot about the need for failure in the pursuit of excellence. 5. 6. Abject failure This is the really dark one. Structural failure It cuts — deeply — but it doesn’t permanently cripple your identity or enterprise. Glorious failure Going out in a botched but beautiful blaze of glory — catastrophic but exhilarating.
Common failure Everyday instances of screwing up that are not too difficult to recover from. 7. 8. 9. Start-Up Chile – Entrepreneurs Welcome! - Boosting High Potential Entrepreneurship in Chile. Un Nouveau Festival. ::: BIENVENIDOS A LOS TRAPEROS DE EMAUS CHILE ::: WTF Should I Do With My Life? Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex. The Official Simon's Cat Website. The whole wide world: Today’s TEDTalks playlist of fan favorites. We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. Culture jamming. Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication)[1][2] is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements[3] to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including (but not limited to) corporate advertising. It attempts to "expose the methods of domination" of a mass society to foster progressive change.[4] Culture jamming is a form of subvertising.[5] Many culture jams are intended to expose questionable political assumptions behind commercial culture.
Tactics include re-figuring logos; fashion statements; and product images as a means to challenge the idea of "what's cool. "[6] Culture jamming often entails using mass media to produce ironic or satirical commentary about itself, commonly using the original medium's communication method. Origins of the term, etymology and history[edit] 1984 coinage[edit] As awareness of how the media environment we occupy affects and directs our inner life grows, some resist. Tactics[edit] Examples[edit] Groups.