“Many of the things you can count, don’t count.

Many of the things you can’t count, really count.”

Albert Einstein

2: Look Inward Angel

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

Carl Jung

“As great scientists have said and as all children know,
it is above all by the imagination that we achieve
perception, and compassion, and hope.”
Ursula K. Le Guin

4: You Are More Than Your  Unstoppable  Ideas

“One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”
Victor Hugo

“If you do not express your own original ideas,
if you do not listen to your own being,
you will have betrayed yourself.”
Rollo May

“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original,
you will have to ram it down their throats.”
Howard Aiken

5: Change the World

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
W. Edwards Demming

“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.”
Benjamin Franklin

6: Work to Be Generous And Humble

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
Kahlil Gibran

“Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.”
Henry David Thoreau

7: Write A Brave New Story of Yourself

“Some stories are true that never happened.” Elie Wiesel

8: Thank The Universe For Every Moment and Miracle

“I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees,
and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes.”
e.e. cummings

9: Go All The Way Your Way

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.”
Buddha

10: Focus is the fulcrum that can move your mountains

“You can do anything, but not everything.”
David Allen

“The great mystery isn’t that people do things badly
but that they occasionally do a few things well.
The only thing that is universal is incompetence.
Strength is always specific!
Nobody ever commented, for example,
that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz
probably couldn’t play the trumpet very well.”
Peter Drucker

11:  Use Thoughts and Actions To Create Poetry in Your Life

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Lao Tze

From Zen And the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

Infants need to cry to tell their parents they need food or cleaning before they can talk and also to exercise their lungs a little. But sometimes they cry out of confusion or for no good reason at all. It’s just the way of all babies and should should be greeted with patience not anger.

“If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.”
- Rumi

Ernest Hemingway wrote that “If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.”

Wiki says “A fractal is generally “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,”[1] a property called self-similarity.” Pictured above is the famous image of a Mandelbrot set fractal image. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

Roots of mathematical interest on fractals can be traced back to the late 19th Century, the term however was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning “broken” or “fractured.” A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion.[2]…

Natural objects that approximate fractals to a degree include clouds, mountain ranges, lightning bolts, coastlines, snow flakes, even various vegetables (cauliflower and broccoli). However, not all self-similar objects are fractals.”

See cool fractals at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal and http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fracthumbs.htm

Chaos is really very beautiful….