Seeing Stars

"The Starry Night"

"For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream."

-Vincent Van Gogh

Create Your Future

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

-Peter Drucker

Management consultant, educator, author, 

and self-described "social ecologist"

Create Beauty and Fun

Bill Watterson, the artist who created the brilliant comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, gives us a glimpse into his creative process. Read more about Watterson in this fastcodesign.com article.

Enjoy!

-Katie

The Last Laugh: Chuck Lorre

CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #490

When I was in second grade I brought home a report card with mediocre grades and a handwritten comment from my teacher saying I was the class clown, and perhaps I needed to get more attention at home. My father complied by giving me a little whack on the back of the head and telling me to quit being a jackass. He then turned on the TV, put his arm around me, and we watched The Honeymooners. 
Lesson learned.

- Chuck Lorre, 

Award-winning sitcom Producer, 

Writer, Class Clown

Check out more Chuck Lorre "Vanity Cards" HERE!

LOVE. WORK. PLAY

President Abraham Lincoln with his son, Tad

American historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and political commentator, Doris Kearns Goodwin, has spent multiple decades researching, writing and delving into the lives of past American presidents. In the video below, Dr. Goodwin delivers a compelling speech about what we can learn from these presidents' life choices. 

She strongly emphasizes the importance of giving equal amounts of energy to three spheres of life: love, work and play. She says, "To pursue all three [spheres] with equal dedication is to make possible a life filled not only with achievement, but with serenity.” 

Watch her marvelous presentation here.

Enjoy! 

-Katie

Create Yourself: Ellen DeGeneres

"As you grow, you’ll realize the definition of success changes…. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not give into peer pressure to try to be something you’re not, to live your life as an honest and compassionate person, to contribute in some way.”

-Ellen Degeneres

From her 2009 Commencement 

Speech at Tulane University

Do It. Don't Be It.

Too many [people] see the role as the goal... You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.

The focus should be less on what you want to be and more on what you want to do."

-Esther Dyson

Chairman of EDventure Holdings

Founder, of the health and wellness non-profit, HICCup

Exert from her interview with Inc. Magazine, "Esther Dyson on Finding Your Purpose and 

What's Next for Entrepreneurship"