The 99 Percent - It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. Microsoft. Chomsky.info : The Noam Chomsky Website. The Art of the Start. “If he could see me now.” The biggest influence on my writing was my high school English teacher, Harold Keables. A few years ago, unfortunately, he passed away. I hope he’s in a place where no one uses the passive voice nor splits infinitives. Based on my performance in his classes, he would be astounded (there’s that passive voice again) to learn that I have written eight books. Frankly, so am I. When you get pregnant, you read What to Expect When you’re Expecting. When you get laid off, you read What Color is Your Parachute?. This book is a weapon of mass construction. The book is as relevant for two guys in a garage starting the next Google as social activists trying to save the world.
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Apple. 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. On paper and in person his visage exudes optimism, righteous ambition, and immeasurable humility. Which is why, as we searched for an iconic figure to represent this, our second annual list of visionaries, his name immediately jumped to mind. That’s because the visionaries we were drawn to made the cut not for being revolutionary inventors, innovative environmentalists, vociferous outcasts, or intrepid reformers—although you’ll find all of these enviable character types on the following pages—but for the unwavering, inexhaustible sense of purpose they bring to their work. Labors of peace, love, and justice are rarely recognized by our celebrity-obsessed media, and by extension most of us. Quiet resolve does not fill tents at the circus. Principle doesn’t make for a sexy photo. Selflessness, unless it is exhibited by heroes in the heat of a crisis, is often presented as weakness.
This section is a tribute to that resolve. Tiny a.k.a.