Gods Within Us

Trust

2012-02-07T23:33:00.001-06:00

"Trust can only be built when both parties are committed in good faith to the success of the other"

-Dan Magaha

Time and Space

2012-01-08T11:19:00.002-06:00

"We are deeply constrained in what we do by the time and place in which we live"

-George Friedman

Other People's Problems

2011-08-18T23:11:00.001-05:00

"When all you are is a problem solver, then everything you perceive will look like a problem to solve. Nobody likes Brainy Smurf."

- Kain Shin

Civilization

2011-07-16T20:04:00.000-05:00

"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases... 'How can we eat?'... 'Why do we eat?'... 'Where shall we have lunch?"

— Douglas Adams

Fairness

2011-07-12T19:03:00.001-05:00

"If you are a woman who isn’t beautiful, it is a social reality that you will have to work twice as hard to hold anyone’s attention. You can either linger on the unfairness of this or you can get with the program."

- Wesley Yang

Policy

2011-06-11T17:22:00.001-05:00

"Obviously there are a lot of different companies with different philosophies, but the important thing is to have a philosophy..."

- Tomonobu Itagaki

Design

2011-05-25T22:57:00.004-05:00

"If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have said 'a faster horse'".

-Henry Ford

Morality

2011-05-15T09:32:00.001-05:00

"Moral authority is an excellent way to stir flames within those that seek social value, but it ultimately becomes unsustainable as social value reaches equilibrium through other means."

-Kain Shin

Feedback

2011-04-14T15:25:00.003-05:00

"When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you."

- Randy Pausch

Apologies

2011-04-01T08:39:00.005-05:00

"...Apologies are a sign of strength"

- Gary Chapman

Sharing Truth

2011-02-20T14:55:00.000-06:00

"Truth is personal, and pushing your truth on someone is akin to forcefully rubbing your scent glands on that person in the hopes of making them smell like you."

-Kain Shin

Experience

2010-08-30T21:16:00.001-05:00

"As I get older, time flows faster and moments become less 'there'... I seem to retain less data per time unit with each passing year."

-Kain Shin

Adaptive Truths

2010-06-29T11:14:00.000-05:00

"I subscribe to the Jeet Kune Do of truth... nothing is 100% without a grain of salt; so I take what works and throw away what doesn't."

-Kain Shin

Opportunistic Anger

2010-06-28T23:33:00.000-05:00

"Anger in the oppressed is a response to perceived opportunity, NOT to injustice. And expressions of anger escalate NOT with more injustice, but with LESS injustice."

-Shelby Steele

Compassion

2010-06-05T14:09:00.000-05:00

"So... You proved that you were right and they were wrong. You happy, now? Maybe what they wanted is NOT your correctness but your compassion."

-Goodwill, the Asshole Sage

Ninja Emotion

2010-03-05T18:46:00.000-06:00

"Emotion like ninja... only ninja can kill ninja."

-Kain Shin, with Sho Kosugi face on

Intentionality

2010-01-09T19:38:00.001-06:00

"Every word, every silence, every action AND inaction serves an explicit intention with methodical precision... whether that intention be known or unknown is up to you."

-Goodwill, the Asshole Sage

Friendship

2009-10-24T09:27:00.001-05:00

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

-unknown

Judicious Attraction

2009-10-13T23:31:00.000-05:00

"Don't think about who you want. Think about the behaviors you want."

-Juli Lee

Fools

2009-10-03T00:42:00.001-05:00

"She's really hot, and I find that attractive"

-Kain Shin, in a very serious tone with a very serious face

Agency

2009-08-27T15:19:00.000-05:00

"Make a choice or else somebody will make it for you"

-Kain Shin

Vocabulary

2009-08-16T21:55:00.000-05:00

Give the monster a solid form... so that you can take it apart, piece by piece.

-Kain Shin

Truth

2009-08-08T01:44:00.001-05:00

The truth makes happen what needs to happen.

-Kain Shin

Love

2009-07-15T22:06:00.000-05:00

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

- Elbert Hubbard

Judgement

2009-05-15T01:58:00.000-05:00

"When you answer somebody's questions, then that is advice.

But if you give advice without being asked, then that is judgement."

-Glenda and Matthew Hinsley

Information

2009-05-14T17:17:00.000-05:00

"I believe attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool."

-Linda Stone

Fools

2009-04-16T18:33:00.000-05:00

"Why not, right? I mean, the truth is... we're all gonna fucking die someday; so let's just do this shit!"

-Kain Shin

Motivation

2009-03-20T09:52:00.000-05:00

"A living being seeks above all else to discharge its strength. Life itself is will to power. Nothing else matters."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Perspective

2008-10-18T23:10:00.000-05:00

"The happiest people are either very lucky or very flexible in their criteria for happiness."

-Matthew Y. Wong, Ph.D.

Sacrifice

2008-10-17T22:31:00.000-05:00

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find

a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause,

but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers

them unlimited opportunities for both."

-Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (1951)

Balance

2008-10-17T22:28:00.000-05:00

"To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium."

- Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change (1963)

Strife

2008-10-17T21:09:00.000-05:00

"Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable than those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence..."

"We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for."

- Eric Hoffer, On Nature and Human Nature