“In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.” IfsNeedsGivingRealFiguresPhilanthropyBellyFeedbackNeed A ChangeYou Need To Change Author:Jeff Raikes
“Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.” WorldGivingWritingHeartLittlesLightBlackFiguresBlowShockingPrettiestShocking Things Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.” GivingTryingWholePracticeFiguresBuddhismBalanceGiving UpNot Giving UpJust Give Up Author:Frederick Lenz
“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.” PeopleWayGivingTryingFirstsStillsImportantHardHelpingFormThreeUnderstandingBreakMissingFiguresObjectsMaterialsToolsDirectPressesBehaveDigitalQuestsImpressiveRendering Author:Jonathan Ive
“Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.” KnowsGivingMayStillsSometimesUseLosesFiguresDirectorsRadarLosing Yourself Author:Faith Prince
“Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.” WantGivingFeelsHappensGuyActorsSpaceWalksFiguresDesignWhat You WantEditorsGoing OutLighting Author:Tarsem Singh
“The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.” WayGivingHandsRunningScienceFourFeetEffectsFiguresHugeTiredMetaphorFloodMultitudesOrganismsTruckBicycleCoveringMonstrousPassengersTurmoilMoleculesSidewalkCartsCarriagesWagonsDonkeyPoniesSwellingImpetuousFour Wheelers Author:William Dean Howells
“Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.” GivingFiguresMeritShadeModestyStanding Out Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.” IfsGivingTryingFirstsEndsNightEasyStuffDealsTreeSpecialFiguresLateToughRainSeasonsMiraclePlantSeedsSoilSunshineWhat IfWowArrangementsReserved Author:Jim Rohn
“O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!” WantGivingYearsI CanLandFiguresTaughtMastersGoes OnTenSeasonsGive MeDancingDearCaughtDullSomething NewBoresAdvancingUniformityTripping Author:Thomas Haynes Bayly
“There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.” PeopleIfsWayGivingBookCharacterHandsRunningTurnsHoursNovelCuttingFiguresWillingReturnReaderPagesLaysErrorsPostsOnlineCopiesPromotingPrintedEditsSpineOutputReturn To Me Author:Cory Doctorow
“Whatever it is that you're passionate about... try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.” WayGivingTryingFiguresShotsPassionateMaking MoneyMma Author:Dana White
“Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.” PeopleThinkingMenWantInspirationalGivingTryingYearsMotivationalForgetHonestFiguresPraiseLifetimeForgottenAppreciationTreasureCeaseAccomplishmentRepeatsCherishSincereFlatteryHeartySincere Appreciation Author:Dale Carnegie
“Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.” IfsThinkingGivingUsedAnswersCompanyStreetsSubjectsFiguresTaughtWallSittingLogicHorseFinancialDebateTeethGreekPeculiarInvestorsMuse Book:One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In