The Future

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents
are interconnected. That is our home.

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: scepticism.

A Positive Difference

Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you believe in.

My thesis is that people want to see films that will not only entertain them, but also give them hope and inspire them.

--Jeff Skoll--

Keen

Everything that's made me what I am today is part of that process of being intrigued and curious.
--Ben Kingsley--

Good & Lucky

"Trading is 40% art, 40% science and 20% luck. To be a good trader, you have to be lucky, but to be lucky you have to be good. You wake up early, you do your routine—going to the gym, or whatever you do that gets you going in the morning, that inspires you in the morning—and you come into work charged up, you're ready to go, so you put yourself in the right place. Therefore you're lucky. It's like being in the right place at the right time.”

Mike Wekerle a.k.a. "the Wek," a.k.a. the Gretzky of the trading floor… The Best Trader on Bay Street…

Wise Man

The wise man reads both books and life itself
Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang was born in Fujian province in south-eastern China, near Xiamen. This mountainous region made a deep impression on his consciousness, and thereafter he would constantly consider himself a child of the mountains (in one of his books he commented that his idea of hell was a city apartment).

Infinite Possibilities

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Daniel Day Lewis

Practice

That technical stuff is really practice. It's not some magical thing. It's hard work, like an athlete, in a way. You just have to practice how to embody this character. If I'm playing a character who isn't like I am, it can take months and months.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Iron Balls

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

(Winston Churchill)

Freedom

He gave us our freedom

(Jack Nicholson)

Relative

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
(Albert Einstein)

Recycle

Andreas Gursky

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-Thomas Edison

Mind & Body

"Me We"
Muhammad Ali

Priorities

"Dora Maar With Cat," a 1941 portrait by Picasso, was sold Wednesday night for $95.2 million, the second highest price for a painting at auction. "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)," a 1905 painting from Picasso's Rose Period, which brought $104.1 million at Sotheby's in May 2004 is the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.