May 2013
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Each progressive spirit is oppressed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to...
– Maurice Maeterlinek (via samsaranmusing)
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What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (via stxxz)
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Whitney Hess, Improving the human experience one... →
stephenfrancoeur:
Pull quote: “There are in fact skills that every user experience designer must exhibit, regardless of sector, seniority, or specialization:
A proficiency in building empathy for customer needs
An aptitude for communicating with colleagues across organizational functions
The initiative to investigate a problem and generate a multitude of solutions for it
An eye for...
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Libraries: A canvas for creating meaningful user...
jerrylieveld:
Love the title of ‘User Experience Librarian’. Information architecture meet UX for real. “UX in libraries needs to be a completely immersive experience. We make sure our shelves are full of items patrons want and need. The surroundings are designed to be home-like with fireplaces, couches, power outlets, lamps, and meeting rooms. Across the country, libraries are thus transforming...
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maschup:
Connected Learning
visualoop:
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Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold,...
– Wisdom from Ian Bogost’s commencement address at the University of Iowa, a fine addition to this ongoing archive of timeless advice. Pair with Greil Marcus’s fantastic 2013 School of Visual Arts commencement address.
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The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.
– Eckhart Tolle (via samsaranmusing)
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apoetreflects:
“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
—Naguib Mahfouz, from Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 3 (Anchor, 2011)
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There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
– Paul Rudnick (via quotedojo)
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So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...
– Sylvia Plath (via theonlymagicleftisart)
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Mind-body Genomics
neurosciencestuff:
A new study from investigators at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center finds that eliciting the relaxation response—a physiologic state of deep rest induced by practices such as meditation, yoga, deep breathing and prayer—produces immediate changes in the expression of genes involved in...
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You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about...
– Marianne Williamson (via liberatingreality)
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow...
– Bertrand Russell (via quotedojo)
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The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.
– Tom Morris (via quotedojo)
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead...
– Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
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Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one...
– Sarah Bernhardt (via quotedojo)