The journey toward self-discovery is life’s greatest adventure.
Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.
Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.
The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.
When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.
Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.
Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn’t really mean it.
Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible.
You can complete a project by dropping it.
We all need to be reminded to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder and to connect to that place from which everything is possible.
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like ‘what is a good life?’ Socrates famously said that ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ I started asking these questions from the starting point of ‘what is success?’
I’ve always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights – even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America’s social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn’t going to happen.
Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.
Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.
Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.
The Republican Party seems unwilling and unable to offer solutions to the crises we are facing, other than pitching the same failed ideas that got us into the mess we are in the first place.
Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from – or have overlooked – or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.
Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians – just as comfortable with the classic verities of great journalism as they are with video, Twitter, Facebook, and, most importantly, citizen journalism.
Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. With the expansion of the Web and the ever-decreasing size and cost of camera phones and video cameras, the ability to commit acts of journalism is spreading to everyone.