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Monday, June 30, 2014

SOFT WATERS


"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

-JOHN LUBBOCK-

MOLDING THE FUTURE


"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

-DENIS WAITLEY-

LET GROW


"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

-JOHN LENNON-

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

THROUGH THE HOURS OF THE NIGHT


"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

-E. E. CUMMINGS-

A DESERTED SUNSET


"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

-JOHN RUSKIN-

TIRE


"I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire."
-ROY ORBISON-

Texas A&M University At Night



"People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far."

-TIGER WOODS-

Sunday, June 22, 2014

CHARACTER


"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

-ABRAHAM LINCOLN-

PERCEPTION

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."

-ALDOUS HUXLEY-

THROUGH A BROKEN WINDOW

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

-RONALD REAGAN-

FILM


"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."

-NIKLAS ZENNSTROM-

SEED


"To see things in the seed, that is genius."

-LAO TZU-

SHAPING THE FUTURE


"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."

-ALBERT ELLIS-

YOU CAN CHECK-OUT ANY TIME YOU LIKE


"So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window."
 
-GERARD WAY-

CENTRAL TEXAS SUMMER


"We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it."

-WILLIE NELSON-

LANGFORD ARCHITECTURE CENTER


"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."

-DANIEL LIBESKIND-

BOLTS


"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

-JOHN CIARDI-

MUSHROOMS


"In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types."

-TERENCE McKENNA-

MILITARY WALK




"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
-ARISTOTLE-

YELLOW


"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

-PABLO PICASSO- 

DREAMER


"There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it."
-TOM DeLONGE-

DIRECTION


"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
-LAO TZU-

LEFTOVERS



"Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."

-JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GEOTHE-

THE CORPS


“Give me an army of West Point graduates, I’ll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I’ll win a war!” 

-GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR-

Monday, June 16, 2014

INSIGHT


"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

-DEEPAK CHOPRA-

OIL


"A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water."

-JAMES BUCHAN-

GROWING THROUGH THE MIRROR

 

"The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included."

-BODHIDHARMA-

SUN RADIO


White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

-GILBERT K. CHESTERTON-

TIME TO JET


"Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand."

-ROBERT G. ALLEN-

FREIGHT


"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."

-HESIOD-

HORSE SENCE


"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

-DALE CARNEGIE-

BACKWOODS


"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."
-ROBERT FROST-

LEARNING TO GLIDE


"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
-FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE-

Sunday, June 15, 2014

RIGHT TO BE FREE


"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."

-MUHAMMAD ALI-

AGGIE SUNSET


"You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different."

-NEIL GAIMAN-

CENTRAL TEXAS MORNING


"Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect."
-STEVEN PINKER-

SAND


"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
-ROBERT W. SERVICE-

CREEK VIEW


"And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel."

-CHRIS LeDOUX-

OCEAN PLACE

"To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that."

-MARTHA GRAHAM-

LIKE A HAWK


"You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it."

-BUDDY HACKETT-

SOUTH BEACH


"I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing."

-ELIZABETH BERKLE-
 
 

FLY


"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."

-RICHARD BACH-

LIKE DEW


"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

-RABINDRANATH TAGORE-

GALVESTON TX.


"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea."

-ANNE MORROW-

WAVE ON WAVE


"Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity."
 
-ANNA LINDH-

THE STREET


"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

-HELEN KELLER-

FOUNDATIONS


"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."

-DAVID ALLAN COE- 

UPON A TIME IN TEXAS


"I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control."

-WILLIE NELSON-

NOWHERE


"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream."

-TOMMY HILFIGER-

Saturday, June 14, 2014

WETLANDS


"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."

-FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT-