Successful TECHNOLOGIES often BEGIN as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau INVENTED scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright BROTHERS invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
Read MoreBecause advertising and MARKETING is an ART, the solution to each new problem or CHALLENGE should BEGIN with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a SEARCH for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.
Read MoreWe come to love those we SERVE. If we CHOOSE to begin to serve the Master out of EVEN a glimmer of faith, we will begin to know Him. We will come to know His purposes for the people we serve for Him. Even when they do not accept our offer to serve them, we will FEEL His appreciation if we persist.
Read MoreIn anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal COMPANION at the best table in the PERFECT restaurant - we might indeed postpone sadness. And MAYBE even halfway through, we will REMAIN in tolerably high spirits, with dessert still to come. But as we near the end of eating, we begin to feel anticipatory twinges of anticlimax.
Read MoreIt's been proven by quite a few STUDIES that plants are good for our PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to RECOVER when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't SUPPOSE anybody really understands yet.
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