I'm a designer and social media enthusiast at the University of Central Florida (UCF). These are interesting quotes and bits I find around the web. You can follow me on Twitter as http://twitter.com/jongabriel.

Posts Tagged: quote

briansolis:

Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology…thx for this @boomerangist! #wtf

briansolis:

Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology…thx for this ! #wtf

Source: briansolis

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."

- Stephen R. Covey

"It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."

- Eleanor Roosevelt (via Brain Pickings)

"DON’T SETTLE FOR MAKING THINGS PRETTY
“The work of design is not to skin stuff, says Yves Béhar of fuseproject. “It’s not to put a nice dumb box around whatever is inside. It’s the whole conception. Design should deliver the whole ecosystem."

Source: fastcodesign.com

stoweboyd:

The single most important decision we can make in a connected world is who to follow. - Stowe Boyd

stoweboyd:

The single most important decision we can make in a connected world is who to follow. - Stowe Boyd

Source: recitethis.com

"Do we choose to be born - or are we fitted to the times?"

- Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, in Spielberg’s Lincoln

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

- Attribution (disputed) to Voltaire

"Character is who you are in the dark."

- Paraphrase of Dwight L. Moody by Pamela Meyer in her TED talk on lie spotting

"We look at the present through a rear view mirror; we walk backwards into the future."

- Marshall McLuhan