na-gets -- nuggets of "aha's"

Monday, June 27, 2005

Stealing

Don't steal!
The government hates competition.

- Seen on a car sticker

Attitude

Work like you don't need the money,
love like you've never been hurt,
and dance like you do when nobody's watching.

From a forwarded e-mail

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Words from Steve Jobs

Life's dots connect

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

Love your work

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

Cease the day!

"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."
"If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?"
And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change
something.

Death

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die
to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever
escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the
single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the
old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too
long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.

Live your life

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Follow...

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."


From the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Do and Define

It is not who you are underneath.
Its what you do that defines you.

- The District Attorney to Batman
Katie Holmes and that Tom Cruise look-alike

Fear not

Mentor: What do you seek?
Bruce Wayne: To use fear against those who take advantage of people who are fearful.

- Batman Begins

We fall

Why do we fall? To learn how to pick ourselves up.

- Mr. Wayne to son Bruce Wayne
Batman Begins

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Spaghetti

Malala na talaga ang mga suot ng babae ngayon!
Nuon, naka-spaghetti strap sila!
Ngayon, bihon na!

- A priest
on skimpy wardrobe of women today

Living on the edge

If you are not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space! Risk it!

- Dolly Carvajal

Blooming

My little boy has now become a woman!

- Dolly Carvajal
on her gay son

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Express

Aim to express, not to impress.

- Ernie O. Cecilia
on public speaking

Friday, June 10, 2005

Happy Endings

I don't believe in happy endings. Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

- Mrs Smith to Mr. Smith
(Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt)

Vision

It takes insight to see things the way they are, but it takes vision to see things the way they can be.

- Jenina Anos
Centex Salutatorian 2005

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Stupid

Printed on a South Park shirt:

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

Friday, June 03, 2005

no pain ....

If it doesn't hurt writing it
It isn't worth writing it
- quoted loosely from Justine Camacho (?) from a website I could no longer find.

Heights

Without depth, there is no height...
Wilson Ng

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Pasalubong

'Pag ang habilin ay salita
Ang pasalubong ay balita
- Ma'am Antoinette Bolanos
matapos hingian ng pasalubong .... ;-)