Quotes 1 ~ Wit and Wisdom

It's better to fail in originality, than succeed in imitation. — Herman Melville

Better nouveau than never. — Groucho Marx

Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

Early to bed. Early to rise. Work like hell and advertise. — Dr. Scholl

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says no. — Ernest Bevin

There are no short cuts to any place worth going. — Beverly Sills

Those who lack courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. — Albert Camus

What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve. — Clement Stone

Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity. — Michel Montaigne

If everything seems under control, you are not going fast enough. — Mario Andretti

We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are. — Anais Nin

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a mechanic. — Laurence J Peter

Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity. — Michel Montaigne

Art is not what we see; it is in the spaces between. — Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth. — Jean-Paul Sartre | Being and Nothingness {L’Etre et le Néant}

If glamour is magic, if it’s really about casting a spell, one should happily confront the manipulation of it all. It’s adult to manipulate, and only human. — Isaac Mizrahi, designer

When creative work is then attempted, the student will know what s/he is about and will not be lost in ignorance or trial and error. If s/he is deeply interested in his/her work, every healthy wo/man has a deep capacity for developing the creative energies in his/her nature. — a unknown book (probably about art education)

The trick is not how much pain you feel but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. — Erica Jong, author

We create stories and stories create us. It is a rondo. — Chinua Achebe

No revolution in outer things is possible without prior revolution in one's inner way of being. Whatever change you aspire to... must be preceded by a change in heart. — I Ching Hexagram 49

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. — the Dalai Lama

To understand is to perceive patterns. — Isaiah Berlin

We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. — Japanese proverb

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. — Hopi saying

From wonder into wonder existence opens. — Lao-tzu

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. — Buddha

Wisdom begins with wonder. — Socrates

When you have only two pennies left in the world. Buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. — Chinese proverb

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman

The opposite of play is not work. It is depression. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. — Anatole France

When you possess light within, you see it externally. — Anaïs Nin

We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are. — Anaïs Nin

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Taisen Deshimaru

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. — Horace Mann

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment. — Rumi

Nobody can hurt you without your permission. — Mahatma Gandhi

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. — Madonna

Choosing not to choose is a choice in itself. — Unknown

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. — Henry Miller

Always be a little kinder than necessary. — James M. Barrie

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. — Thomas Browne

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. — Buddha

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. — Joseph Campbell

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss. — Joseph Campbell

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. — Albert Einstein

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. — Marie Curie

If God had wanted us to be the same, He would have created us that way. — Koran

When you start on a long journey, trees are trees, water is water, and mountains are mountains. After you have gone some distance, trees are no longer trees, water no longer water, mountains no longer mountains. But after you have traveled a great distance, trees are once again trees, water is once again water, mountains are once again mountains. — Zen teaching

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? — Rumi

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis. — Winston Churchill

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. — Shirley MacLaine

I love not man the less, but Nature more. — Lord Byron

Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate. — Lord Byron

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. — Lord Byron

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are things which renew humanity. — Buddha

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck. — Sophocles

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world. — Harold Kushner

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Pearson

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. — Albert Einstein

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. — George Eliot

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. — Alan Kay

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. — Spanish proverb

There is no truth. Only points of view. — Dame Edith Sitwell

You were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. — Buckminster Fuller

Any fool can make a rule and any fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. — Katharine Hepburn

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. — Robert A. Heinlein

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, "You are good, you are pretty, I give you permission." — Eve Ensler

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. — Dr. Seuss

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. — William James

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi

In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause. — Anthony de Mello

Love is an act of courage, not of fear. — Paolo Freire

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo

I cannot live without my life. — Emily Bronte

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. — Ellen Burstyn

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life. — Eric Hoffer

I will not take "but" for an answer. — Langston Hughes

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. — Florence Nightingale

He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven. — Hindu saying

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver

Love is much more demanding than law. — Archbiship Desmond Tutu

The palest ink is better than the sharpest memory. — Chinese proverb

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. — Albert Schweitzer

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. — Hermann Hesse

I am a part of all that I have met. — Lord Alfred Tennyson

Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness. — Seneca

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover. — Henri Poincaré

You have to be available to the invisible voices that are swirling around you. — George C. Wolfe

You haven't seen a tree until you have seen its shadow from the sky. — Amelia Earhart

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. — Grace Pulpit

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao-tzu

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. — Ray Bradbury

Everything in life is based on daring. — Martin Buber

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. — Winston Churchill

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential. — Jane Wagner

Simplicity is the key to brilliance. — Bruce Lee

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. — Dorothy Thompson

Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt. — Tom Gates

If you really want something in this life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they are about to announce the lottery numbers. — Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. — Pierre Corneille

What we do flows from who we are. — Paul Vitale

Do or do not. There is no "try." — Master Yoda

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without deviation, progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfuly. — William Stafford

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. — Kahlil Gibran

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Far away is only far away if you don't go there. — O. Povo

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. — Grace Hopper

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind. — Krishnamurti

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else—we are the busiest people in the world. — Eric Hoffer

To do two things at once is to do neither. — Publilius Syrus

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, Simplify. — Henry D. Thoreau

Things do not change, we change. — Henry D. Thoreau

It is not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. — Mary O'Connor

What is the use of running when we are not on the right road? — German proverb

Cooking is a great way to get back in touch with things that brought us comport. — Liz Scott

Anything made with love, bam!—it's a beautiful meal. — Emeril Lagasse

People change and forget to tell each other. — Lillian Hellman

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. — Heraclitus of Ephesus

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. — Alice Walker

Live is a verb. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. — Charles Evans Hughes

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.. — Oscar Wilde

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. — Henry James

It's never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot

Praise the bridge that carried you over. — George Colman

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you have to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. — Fred Rogers

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. — Larry James

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. — Buddha

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. — Buddha

To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. — Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. — Buddha

Not to mourn for the past,
Not to worry about the future,
Not to anticipate troubles
But to live the present moment
Wisely and earnestly. — Buddha?

Only the foolish learn from experience — the wise learn from the experience of others. — Romanian Proverb

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others. — Otto von Bismarck

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. — Graham Greene

You have not lived until you have almost died. Life has a flavor the protected will never know. — Unknown

To love is to give, to be brave, to hold the pain, and ultimately to live. — Jing Zhou

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. — William James

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. — Geoffrey F. Albert

Intensity: say yes
Inclusion: be generous
Integrity: speak up
Intimacy: love more
Intuition: trust yourself
Intention: slow down
— Life Is a Verb p8, by Patti Digh

The Four Noble Truths — http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/fourtruths.html

Kubla Khan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubla_Khan

Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me
That with music loud and long
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

"Kalpa" Press Release: U-Ram Choe @ bitforms

U-Ram Choe

Kalpa

bitforms gallery

bitforms gallery is pleased to present new sculpture by Korean artist U-Ram Choe in a second solo exhibition. Realized over the course of a year, this work is rooted in a journey to the American Southwest, where the artist encountered complete darkness for the first time. In this environment Choe observed the Milky Way, unpolluted by the atmospheric haze of artificial light. “I encountered the universe,” says Choe. “Passing moments of absolute being exploded into an immense history of life’s origin.”

“The speed of light fascinates me. Everything that we see in the sky has already happened,” says the artist. Evoking the awe and wonder of nighttime skies, several flickering orbs illuminate the gallery space and surround the viewer with sparkling nebulae.

Bringing the experience of stargazing indoors, the installation conjures galactic scale. At the exhibit's center is three-tier swirling mass of treelike brass tendrils, resin and light. Forming a representation of the Milky Way, the motorized construction orbits an axis driven by electrical pulses. Programmed by the artist to run in tandem, a collective installation of nearly a dozen sculptures transforms the gallery into a planetarium of Choe's own personal imagination or universe, filled with stars.

Using celestial motion as a metaphor for spiritual discovery, Choe expresses in this work an ageless curiosity of creation and the origins of life. Informed also by imagery gathered by the Hubble telescope, the individual pieces reflect an intense meditation on the cosmos as a record of spatial and temporal infinity. “The eye of science is looking at God, the beginning,” says Choe. “The rhythmic cycles of movement in the show attempt to capture vast physical record, and our present understanding of it.”

Kalpa:

noun, Sanskrit aeon;

cosmic period of inconceivable duration; the time it takes for a universe to form, stabilize and come to an end, it also includes the period of silence after a universe ends in Buddhism, several analogies are given attempt its understanding:

Imagine a huge empty cube at the beginning of a kalpa, approximately sixteen miles on each side. Once every 100 years, a tiny mustard seed is inserted into the cube. This huge cube will be filled before the kalpa ends.

Imagine a giant rocky mountain at the beginning of the kalpa, approximately 16x16x16 miles (dwarfing Mt. Everest). Every 100 years, a small piece of silk is used to wipe the mountain. The mountain will be completely depleted before the kalpa ends.

The Latest in Website Interactivity - Noble Desktop

What are JavaScript Frameworks Like Spry & jQuery?

• JavaScript frameworks are pre-written JavaScript code that do common tasks/effects. They make development easier and faster
• Adobe's JavaScript framework is called Spry
• jQuery is probably the most popular JavaScript framework. Lots of people have developed great plugins based on jQuery, which you can download and use.
• jQuery's advantage is that it can do much more than Spry. It is also more of an industry standard.

JavaScript Frameworks (Spry & jQuery) works on an iPhone, Flash doesn't!

jQuery jquery.com

(min.js is a simplified file of the original js file)

jQuery work samples mediatemple.net/jquery14

Ajax = asynchronous JavaScript and XML » web content can be preloaded behind the scene (ex. jQuery multiple tabs with bookmark support, which means that you can use the Back button to navigate visited tabs)

jQuery Cycle Plugin www.malsup.com/jquery/cycle

This plugin can also cycle DIVs

If recycle images' sizes are different, this plugin will still work.

Samples

• panic.com/coda » rollover to "Download" to see the pop-up note (the concept of One Window Web Development)
• www.krop.com/iamgarth » clicking on any icon will scroll down the page and open a larger version » clicking on the enlarged image will navigate you to the next image.
• dragoninteractive.com » see the animated rollover button
• resenmedia.com » click on Product » scroll down to Tangibles » click on the image to navigate

CSS can create a whole navbar with all its states (rollover, down, etc.) in one image. This is called CSS Sprites and makes it download faster. (see apple.com top navbar)

The best way to create a good drop-down menu is using CSS.

Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns http://htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns

Fun Stuff: iconfactory iconfactory.com

Since the release of Safari 3.1, there now have an option in Safari's Preferences » Advanced to show/hide the Develop menu

Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life - Eknath Easwaran

ISBN-10: 1586380265
ISBN-13: 978-1586380267

The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley ~p11 {interested}
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi ~p37 {author's high recommendation}

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna ~p198 {author's high recommendation}

In India, meditation is called "the end of sorrow" and "mastery of the art of living." ~p13

The Buddha explains, "All that we are is the result of what we have thought." ~p21

Eight Steps of Passage Meditation ~p24
1. Meditation on a Passage
2. Repetition of a Mantram
3. Slowing Down
4. One-pointed Attention
5. Training the Senses
6. Putting Others First
7. Spiritual Companionship
8. Spiritual Reading

Good Passage Sources
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Twenty-third Psalm
Katha Upanishad

Passages
Let nothing upset you;
Let nothing frighten you;
Everything is changing;
God alone is changeless.
Patience attains the goal.
Who has God lacks nothing;
God alone fills every need.
— Teresa of Avila

A mind that is fast is sick.
A mind that is slow is sound.
A mind that is still is divine.
— Meher Baba

I tell you one thing –
if you want peace of mind,
do not find fault with others.
Rather learn to see your own faults.
Learn to make the whole world your own.
No one is a stranger, my child;
this whole world is your own.
— Sri Sarada Devi

Praise and blame,
gain and loss,
pleasure and sorrow
come and go like the wind.
To be happy,
rest like a giant tree
in the midst of them all.
— Buddha

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
— Sai Baba

Four things come not back—the spoken word, the sped arrow, time past, and the neglected opportunity.
— Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (c. 750-c. 803) Poet

"Ego" comes from the Latin for "I."

"Ahamkara" means "self-will" in Sanskrit.

"Aham" means "I" in Sanskrit.

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space - Joseph Campbell

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2002

page xx

As stated already centuries ago in the Indian Kena Upanisad (Upanishad): “That which in the lightning flashes forth, makes one blink, and say ‘Ah!’—that ‘Ah!’ refers to divinity.” And centuries before that, in the Chhãndogya Upanisad (c. ninth century B.C.):

When [in the world] one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, recognizes nothing else: that is [participation in] the Infinite. But when one sees, hears, and recognizes only otherness: that is smallness. The Infinite is the immortal. That which is small is mortal.

But sir, that Infinite: upon what is it established?

Upon its own greatness—or rather, not upon greatness. For by greatness people here understand cows and horses, elephants and gold, slaves, wives, mansions and estates. That is not what I mean; not that! For in that context everything is established on something else.

This Infinite of which I speak is below. It is above. It is to the west, to the east, to the south, to the north. It is, in fact, this whole world. And accordingly, with respect to the notion of ego (ahamkãrãdesa): I also am below, above, to the east, to the south, and to the north. I, also, am this whole world.

Or again, with respect to the Self (ãtman): The Self (the Spirit) is below, above, to the west, to the east, to the south, and to the north. The Self (the Spirit), indeed, is the whole world.

Verily, the one who sees this way, thinks and understands this way, takes pleasure in the Self, delights in the Self, dwells with the Self and knows bliss in the Self; such a one is autonomous (svarãj), moving through all the world at pleasure (kãmacãra). Whereas those who think otherwise are ruled by others (anya-rãjan), know but perishable pleasures, and are moved about the world against their will (akãmacãra).

Final Cut Pro 6 Essential Effects - Rendering

Course Website
http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=428


14. Rendering

Keep in mind: rendering only effects Final Cut during the editing process; the final output will be always high quality.

RT menu

tow bars: top one for video; the bottom one for audio

"Safe RT" is for highest quality (bar is in red)
"Unlimited RT" is for decreased quality (bar is in orange) - I like this better
"Play base layer only" is for rendering without effects

Always set the "Playback video quality" to Dynamic

Audio rendering setting: it can be changed according to the speed of the computer HD

For firewire 400 device - set it to 22 MB/s

For firewire 800 device - set it to 44 MB/s

Playing unrendered sequences

for video - 1. press Option P - 2. QuickView Window - 3. Sequence menu » Render Selection (Command R) (all color bars should be selected)


for audio

Auto Render is Cool

set to 10 or 15 min

Where to change render settings?

- before the project starts, use "User Preferences"
- after the project begins, use "Sequence Settings"

Delete Render Files

Render Manager

Keyboard shortcuts and conclusion