Robert Story – Productivity

Some thoughts about this day:
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” — W.T. Purkiser
“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.” — William Jennings Bryan
“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November [...]

TEEN GOES NUCLEAR: He creates fusion in his Oakland Township home
In the basement of his parents’ Oakland Township home, tucked away in an area most aren’t privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more than two years and 1,000 hours to research and [...]

The Power of Relationships in Your Career: Leadership by Example – Yahoo! Finance
“It’s not what you know, but who you know.”
I know this old saw sounds incredibly shallow, and it goes against the grain of the meritocracy we all generally believe creates an even playing field in our schools, organizations, economy, [...]

• It’s a performance. Like it or not, he said, if you are giving a speech or a presentation, you are performing. Of course, people like Richard are at an advantage compared to the rest of us, he admitted, since he does this for a living. Still, it is useful for all presenters to remember [...]

OneLook Reverse Dictionary
OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the “Find words” button. [...]

See the world as history’s cartographers once saw it. A new batch of Google Earth overlays covers the globe with richly detailed historical maps.
The Rumsey collection includes 16 maps. Among them you’ll find a 1790 world globe, a 1680 map of Tokyo, and an 1814 map spanning the Pacific Ocean to the Mississippi–courtesy of Lewis [...]

I was reading something today by Jim Rohn in which he discussed the issue of the people that we choose to be around. He states the following:
“You must constantly ask yourself these questions:

Who am I around?
What are they doing to me?
What have they got me reading?
What have they got me saying?
Where do they have me [...]

If you enjoy the quote box, now labeled “Inspirational Thoughts”, and would like to implement the same on your site, Abhijit Nadgouda has written a great widget for this that is available at his site: ifacethougts. Check it out.

“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we’re fearful, we freeze up. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground without thinking about where they’re going. They trip, they fall down, and then they get back up again and run [...]

“The
vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking
down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men
because they are different from other men.” – Lyndon B. Johnson