Basically Myra » quotes http://www.basicallymyra.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:49:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Bridges http://www.basicallymyra.com/2010/04/29/bridges/ http://www.basicallymyra.com/2010/04/29/bridges/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:04:44 +0000 nmyra http://www.basicallymyra.com/?p=464 “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”  -David Russell

]]> http://www.basicallymyra.com/2010/04/29/bridges/feed/ 0 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder http://www.basicallymyra.com/2009/04/02/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/ http://www.basicallymyra.com/2009/04/02/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:48:03 +0000 nmyra http://www.basicallymyra.com/?p=243 The Innervision Mirror by Thorsten van Elten will always tell us something positive when we look at ourselves in the mirror.  Don’t be afraid of what you see.

Inversion Mirrors

Left reads:  “To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.”  -  Oscar Wilde

Right reads:  “It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.”  – Oscar Wilde

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— Charles Eames

]]> http://www.basicallymyra.com/2009/01/23/171/feed/ 0 Problem Solving http://www.basicallymyra.com/2009/01/12/problem-solving/ http://www.basicallymyra.com/2009/01/12/problem-solving/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:33:24 +0000 nmyra http://www.basicallymyra.com/?p=154 “I’ve been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.”  – Jeffrey Veen

]]> http://www.basicallymyra.com/2009/01/12/problem-solving/feed/ 0 Questions http://www.basicallymyra.com/2008/12/19/questions/ http://www.basicallymyra.com/2008/12/19/questions/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:10:07 +0000 nmyra http://www.basicallymyra.com/?p=101 “You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question:  Is that okay?”

-Jim Rohn
]]> http://www.basicallymyra.com/2008/12/19/questions/feed/ 0 If you’re going to… http://www.basicallymyra.com/2008/07/29/if-youre-going-to/ http://www.basicallymyra.com/2008/07/29/if-youre-going-to/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:05:42 +0000 nmyra http://www.basicallymyra.com/?p=27 “If you’re going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning.  If you’re going to fight something, fight for those in need.  If you’re going to question something, question authority.  If you’re going to lose something, lose your inhibitions.  If you’re going to gain something, gain respect and confidence.  And if you’re going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams.”

- Daniel Golston

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