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Travel Quotes To Inspire International Escapades

Gabriel Hummel — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:16:39 +0000

Here are a selection of travel quotes that will not only offer some inspiration to spur your future adventures, but at a minimum can serve as a cool motivational poster to hang next to your “team player” self help wall ornament

“Culture is the sea we swim in — so pervasive, so all-consuming, that we fail to notice its existence until we stop out of it. It matters more than we think.”

Eric Weiner

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

St. Augustine

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

Mark Twain

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

Henry Miller

“The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”

Rolf Potts

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

Lao Tzu

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.”

Robert Frost

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”

Caskie Stinnett

And one more to really ponder why you aren’t already living as digital nomad

“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”

Paulo Coelho

One step forward

Gabriel

Superhero Quotes To Help You Save The World

Gabriel Hummel — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:42:52 +0000

Girl or boy, who doesn’t love a great superhero?

Superman, Wonder Woman, Wolverine, Batman, all of these characters inspired us as children with their tales of doing the right thing, acting for justice and peace, and of course, kicking some serious ass

Who’s to say that we can’t still look up to these heroes of our past and still draw inspiration from their heroic tales?

You and I both know that you loved the new Batman movies at least twice as much as your son did

I’m taking it back to the old school for this post, it’s time to look back on your favorite heroes and realize that as corny as it sounds, you too can be a superhero

“Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.”

Spiderman

“Tarnished reputations are unfortunate, Robin. We can live with those. However, a threat to all of Gotham City is something else.”

Batman

“If anyone knows what it’s like to be on the outside, I do. Sometimes I feel like I’m out there fighting all alone. Sometimes I feel like giving up. But, then I remember that what I stand for is more important than anything else.”

Superman

“When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—“No. You move.””

Captain America

“If the prospect of living in a world where trying to respect the basic rights of those around you–and valuing each other simply because we exist–are such daunting, impossible tasks that only a super-hero born of royalty can address them…then what sort of world are we left with? And what sort of world do you want to live in?”

Wonder Woman

“They say that heroes are born, not made, babe! That’s bull! I’m livin’ proof! Bein’ a hero’s more than havin’ some sort o’ power! Look at Storm! Look at Captain America! They either never had powers or they lost ‘em! What keeps ‘em goin’ is guts! Without guts all the power an’ trainin’ in the world don’t mean spit!”

Wolverine

“In forest dark or glade beferned

No blade of grass shall go unturned

Let those who have the daylight spurned

Tread not where this green lamp has burned.”

Green lantern

10 Quotes To Get You Looking and Feeling Healthy

Gabriel Hummel — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:05:52 +0000

Well spring is here, and that means that people will be more than ever hitting the gym, eating lean cuisines, and grunting while lifting big weights. All the great perks of getting healthy do come at a high cost though, you need to have the determination and personalized commitment to wanting to be as healthy (and looking as good) as you possibly can. I was thinking today about some of the major players in the world of health, nutrition,bodybuilding, and generally anything even loosely related to health and fitness and decided to compile a list of the top 10 best quotes that helped get my lazy ass to the gym on a regular basis. Enjoy and happy lifting.

“The first wealth is health”

-Emerson

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity”

-JFK

“”For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. “

-Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”

-Thomas Jefferson

“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.”

-Anthony Robbins

“Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.”

-Voltaire

“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”

-Ben Franklin

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”

-Mark Twain

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

-Lance Armstrong

“Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them”

-Hippocrates

Top 10 Quotes By People Who Love To Gamble With Your Money

Gabriel Hummel — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:11:07 +0000

Crazy times would be the easiest way for me to define how my life has currently unfolding. Between prepping to move out west and arranging my entire life into a handful of boxes in order to best begin my new minimalist and/or crazed hippie lifestyle change, lets just say that shit is changing, and its changing fast.

In Lou of all this controlled insanity, one of the big areas of my life that has grown in interest (and importance) to myself is that of personal finance. I know that there are a million and one finance blogs on the Internet, and to be totally honest they all pretty much point to the exact same style of advice with only minor discrepancies. Since you are all more than capable of typing “personal finance blog” into google and walking into a cluster fuck of good resources, I will not bore you with the semantics of my financial endeavours. Instead I will offer the last route and direct you to some of my favorite quotes on finance by some of the most well respected gurus in the financial industry.

Have fun counting your pennies

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.
Henry Ford

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential… it’s no different in the financial realm.
Suze Orman

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates

My son is now an “entrepreneur.” That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.
Ted Turner

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

If you’re not serving the customer, you’d better be serving someone who is.
Karl Albrecht

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
Mukesh Ambani

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.
Lakshmi Mittal

Top 10 Company Slogans (Complete With Child Labor Laws)

Gabriel Hummel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:21:58 +0000

So you went through my whole process of creating and developing your own brand to push out into the masses and decided to stand out for what you believe in. Now isn’t it true that most brands change their logos, slogans, and company principles from time to time? Of course, that is what we in the personal development industry like to call growth, the opposite being death. So maybe a few years, months, or even weeks from now you will decide that you are not happy with certain aspects of your personal avatar, and some changes need to be made. Where does one start?

I have created a list of my top 10 company slogans and their accompanying logos to serve as a template for the creation or future alteration of your personal brand. Some of these companies adhere to poor business practices and ethics, but that doesn’t matter because we are not trying to emulate other brands. These companies offer at least a good logo design and general slogan that can serve as a platform for filling that empty space that is blindly accompanying part of your brand and its design. So remember to take a step back, open up the right side of your brain a bit, and be creative while you are busy furiously writing an email boycotting gabrielhummel.com for its promotion of Nike

10. What happens here, stays here.

9. Reach out and touch someone

8. Because I’m worth it

7. Share moments. Share life.

6. The mind is a terrible thing to waste.

5. We try harder.

4. There are some things that money can’t buy. For everything else there’s MasterCard.

3. Have it your way.

2. Think different

1. Just do it

Entrepreneur Quotes That Will Earn You 100 Billion Dollars

Gabriel Hummel — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:38:57 +0000

Random? Yes. Cool Shot? Hell Yes.

I have been reading a lot of books lately, mostly in an attempt to absorb as much information about business and entrepreneurs as possible. Why? You might be wondering. Simply put, I am trying to engross myself into the mindset of what it takes to be a successful and fun loving business man. I have always known that I was not that keen on working for someone else, throughout the course of my life I was always looking at tasks and jobs and viewing them under a magnifying glass and looking at the various ways that they were effective and also ineffective. That notion compounded with the fact that I knew I would never work as a corporate mule for 50+ hours a week has caused me to create and run 3 small companies over the years. After recently immersing myself into the world of self start business, I have realized that while working for others might be a necessary means to an end, ultimately there are not enough companies with the same vision and purpose that I have in life, so I have no desire to work for them. Getting my own business up and running is going to be crucial for my future life adventures, and I must say I am damned excited to put together a plan and get the ball rolling.

So in Lou of this, I decided to post up some of the better entrepreneurial quotes I have read over the years, and give you guys a small taste of some of the genius that is floating around in the business world today. In the meantime I will get back to pouring my passions into reading and planning this future career, and of course as soon as more concrete information on what I am working on comes together, you guys will be the first to know.

On to the quotes that will make you rich (results may vary depending on how much of a punk you are)

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

-Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

If you can dream it, you can do it.

-Walt Disney, founder of Disney Corporation

The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike… is to stop thinking about ‘there are a bunch of reasons I might fall off’ and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way.

-Dick Costolo, founder of Feedburner.com

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

-Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

-Steve Jobs, founder of Apple

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work

-Thomas Edison, founder of General Electric

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners

-Robert T. Kiyosaki, author, entrepreneur, investor

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life

-John F. Kennedy, U.S. President

Watch, listen, learn. You can’t know it all yourself.. anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity

-Donald Trump, founder of the Trump Organization

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

-Oprah Winfrey founder of Oprah Inc

And one more to really get you off your ass

Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them

–Anonymous

Famous Actors with Quotes That Don’t Suck

Gabriel Hummel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:49:34 +0000

(I don’t know who took this shot, but it is hilariously awesome on so many levels)

Anyone who has read this blog more than once knows how I feel about Hollywood and the whole notion of being a celebrity. In lighter words, I am not in a blog partnership with Perez Hilton, and I do not have a subscription to People magazine. To put it a bit more directly for the reading impaired, I do not understand nor do I give two shits about the goings on in the personal lives of any person who is famous, especially actors and actresses who are simply trying to take a shit without a camera going off (as atypical as they may be).With that out of the way we can get on as to why the hell I would exactly make a post of any nature surrounding the famous people that so many drool and fantasize over.

I have a great level of respect and interest in the history of the lives of many actor’s and actresses. I have found that the vast majority of them were not born into being famous, they busted their ass at their craft and became a huge megastar only because of their consistent efforts to never give up and quit when others would cry like babies. People like Sylvester Stallone who lived in the most poor of conditions, ruined a marriage, and sold their dog for a few dollars just so they could live for their passions and push towards what they want in life. People like that deserve respect, and that’s exactly what I have for them.

I comprised a selection of quotations by some of these big time Hollywood A-listers, and while some of them may have not had the hard knock life making it to the top, all of them seem to have their shit together in their lives and a good head on their shoulders, hence the advice that doesn’t suck, and it actually damn good for all us normies

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

I don’t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
-Angelina Jolie

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
-Brad Pitt

God knows I’ve done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers
-Dustin Hoffman

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
-Clint Eastwood

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.
-Tom Cruise

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play
-Warren Beatty

You always pass failure on the way to success.
-Mickey Rooney

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
-James Dean

What Children’s Books Can Teach Adults

Gabriel Hummel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:10:38 +0000

(Photo by just.K)

Winnie the Pooh, the Bernstein Bears, Clifford, Dr. Seuss, Harold and the Purple Crayon, all of these are some of the most recognized and widespread stories that are read in an effort to get the children down for bed because its sex night at your residence.

Jokes aside, children books play an integral role in our society. They are used as stepping stones for children to learn, spark their imaginations, and ultimately help sculpt them into the people they will be in the future. But what happens after you’re too old for Winnie the Pooh? Does the idea of Harry Potter and some daring male vampire who runs around feasting on blood and making out with teenagers get your own, or your children’s juices flowing? Probably not (though I am sure it might get some other juices flowing for some of you sickos ).

Where am I going with this? The bottom line is that children’s books are often times more deep, creative, and insightful than that stack of Encyclopedia Britannica’s that you got form your Grandma when you were 12 and never opened even once, unless it was to lookup the word “sex”. As we age we cast aside these books, only to revive them at the pitter patter of our own children running around the household causing a ruckus.

But just what can a children’s book teach a old, educated, well rounded, cocky sob like you or me?

Every children book, movie, story, etc, has some kind of moral to the story. The moral might wrap around some basic concept like sharing or the alphabet or learning your ABCs, but often times they go way deeper than that and leave even my 23 year old self rethinking the meaning of life at some of their quotes (okay maybe not that intense )

Winnie the Pooh

One of the classics, who doesn’t love a bear that run’s around trying to grab as much honey as humanly possible while dragging along a zebra/pig mut, a cracked out tiger, a kangaroo, and a donkey who is best friends with a rain cloud? Let’s take a moment to check out some of the insight that good ol’ Pooh had for us.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right; but spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

People who don’t think probably don’t have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that’s blown into their heads by mistake.

Wow. Now if you are going to sit at your screen right now and tell me that at least one of those quotes didn’t offer more insight to your day then your bosses ramblings or some bullshit article your read on Facebook, let me direct you to the close button at the top right of your web browser. Personally I am very fond of the first quote as it reminds me to love the simple things in life and not want so much of the external crap (material or otherwise) and appreciate all the things that are going on in this very moment.

Dr. Seuss

Now everyone is familiar with my friend Seuss and his acid induced adventures involving a plethora of crazy and ridiculous characters that I could not even begin to name here. Whether you think his books are a direct result of a drug induced haze or raw creative potential unleashed, you cannot help but love his books even If you are two feet into the grave. Here are a few insights from the doctor on life, happiness, and general amazing randomness (free trip to Dr. Feelgood not included)

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.

You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you will be the guy who’ll decide where you’ll go. Oh the places you’ll go.

Full awesome, Dr. Seuss might be my all time favorite for children books as not only are his writings insightful, his drawings and creativity is unmatched in a lot of ways (plus he rhymes lots of things, who the hell doesn’t love rhyming?) If I had to pick a few favorites here it would undoubtedly be the last one and the second one. I always find it important to find joy in each moment and of course you all know how I feel about decisions and doing what you love in life (with no bullshit excuses).

So there you have it, a little taste of children’s books and the powerful thoughts they can give us even late into our adulthood. Hopefully you will decide to brush the dust off a few of these, give your mom a call to find them, or at least appreciate how the simplest things in life, like a children’s book that is on a 3 year old reading level, can have a impact on your life. Hopefully that dash of insight will get your wheels running for future adventures

After all, “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

Gabriel

Design Your Life: Quotes by Amazing Architects

Gabriel Hummel — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:20:09 +0000

(Photo by Philipp Klinger)

I love architecture, I am a closet dork for looking at buildings, furniture, bridges, and pretty much anything that is more structure and usable than a typical piece of art. There is something about looking at a piece of art that is being utilized that jump starts my interests faster than seeing a sexy brunette in little black dress.

While the artists offered us direct forms of creativity and appreciation, architects offered us something that we could use. While much architecture is taken for granted across the world, there is no denying that these brilliant minds who made some of these amazing structures had some serious insight into the human mind and how we live our day to day lives.

So in their honor, here is a selection of quotations from architects who may not just make your chair, car, and skyscraper, but also might construct some inspiration and motivation the next time you are slumming around in your life

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
-Daniel Burnham

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
-Addison Mizner

And sometimes I’m criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.
-Minoru Yamasaki

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
-Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Less is more.
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
-Adolf Loos

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
-Luis Barragan

Men can do all things if they will.
-Leon Battista Alberti

10 Creative Quotes by Famous Artists

Gabriel Hummel — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:52:55 +0000

While not everyone is interested in the arts, everyone can appreciate it

Whether you are admiring Warhol’s Campbell Soup, basking in the utter brilliance of Michelangelo’s David or even watching your 5 year old color outside the lines, there is no doubt that art plays a critical part in our lives

While many of the artists we know of get a bad rap for being crazy, socially retarded, or simply weird, the fact is that even if they are busy cutting off a part of their ear for their girlfriend, they still had a lot of insight into the human mind, especially the areas of creativity

Here are 10 quotes by famous artists that might make you disrobe for the next person looking for a model

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent Van Gogh

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Pablo Picasso

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Leonardo da Vinci

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

Henri Matisse

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

An empty canvas is a living wonder.. far lovelier than certain pictures.

Kandinsky

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Rembrandt

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it’s important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

Every good painter paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock