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Posts Tagged ‘life lessons’

Sunday Snippet: Love and Marriage

October 2nd, 2011

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” The quote above comes from Sam Levenson, a humorist and TV host from the middle part of the 20th century. I think that concept is absolutely spot on. Love [...]

Happiness = Perceived Progress and Control

August 25th, 2011

Many people falsely assume that they would be happiest with a job that pays the most money. This almost makes sense, because it is with money that we can go on vacations and buy fun toys. However, money is far from the only part of the happiness at work equation. In fact, it’s actually a [...]

Play to Win or Don’t Play at All?

August 2nd, 2011

This past weekend, thousands of gamers from all around the world congregated in Las Vegas for the Evo Championship Series. It consists of several fighting game tournaments — like Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition — and it really is the largest event of its kind. Since I’m a fighting game fan, I was following [...]

Sunday Snippet: Hideo Kojima

July 24th, 2011

“We ought to remember the past, yes — but we shouldn’t allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We’ll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century [...]

Sunday Snippet: Jessica Hische

July 17th, 2011

“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” Life is too short. I understand that we all have bills to pay and mouths to feed, but it is also important that you spend what precious time we have on this planet doing [...]