Tag: quote
Aggrandize The Damage | Make It Beautiful
“When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”
Barbara Bloom
Via thinkexist.com
ANTHONY BURRILL – Wallpaper*
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“We Should Have Sent A Poet Not A Pilot”
50 years ago this month, Yuri Gagarin broke beyond earths gravity and floated around in space for 108 minutes. He orbited once and then returned, a hero, a legend.
Here’s how he described what he saw and felt :
“I can see clouds. I can see everything. It’s beautiful.”
“The feeling of weightlessness was somewhat unfamiliar compared with Earth conditions. Here, you feel as if you were hanging in a horizontal position in straps. You feel as if you are suspended.”
Getting the first man in space was and still is a monumental achievement in human history, although, Sergei Korolev, chief designer and scientist behind the whole Soviet space adventure, once remarked, they “should have sent a poet not a pilot”.
Reminds me of discussions with my clients around rethinking social media, especially away from just another broadcasting channel (ref : golden rule). Instead I get them to focus on exploring the opportunity to be themselves (humanisation of brands) and describe the process not product of their offerings.
The big hurdle is reversing the trend that social media sits within marketing or public relations, who, with their specific set of monologue communication skills around crafting messages for the masses or the gatekeepers of the many, fail to be conversational.
I’m not dismissing these professions just challenging the assumption to truly capture experiences you need more than simple descriptions and statements of fact but instead emotion, lyricism and sometimes (dare I say it) poetry.
(Extension and personal followup to my recent article on Why Social Media Shouldn’t Be Outsourced.)
Image credit
Origin of quote in title is from the Titanium play. Quote was also paraphrased in the film Contact.
One of the saddest things is
“One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work.”
William Faulkner
Via thehiddenpersuader-english.blogspot.com
Hell, there are no rules here…
“Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”
Via brainyquote.com
Content is not king
“Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you’d choose your friends — if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
via Linklove
Life Is Pretty Simple
Via Linklove
Get Working
Made me nod.