This clip has been making the rounds recently. Zach Wahls is speaking in front of the Iowa Senate about a bill banding gay marriage. Regardless of how you feel about the subject of Gay Marriage, I think this is a fantastic speech of persuasion.
A second is a long time, maybe it’s dwarfed by it’s longer siblings, but a whole lot can fit into a second. This is a compilation of submissions to The Beauty of a Second film contest.
I love finding ways people communicate with each other. The most earnest ones are between couples, and this does not fail. It’s a great little idea and hopefully we’ll be seeing more things like this.
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot”albeit a perfect one”to get an “A”.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work”and learning from their mistakes”the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
from Art and Fear via LifeClever
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my ax.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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Excellent (very long) article with author Alan Moore. Here are a couple of quotes about words that stood out to me:
Magic and language are practically the same thing, they would at least have been regarded as such in our distant past. I think it is wisest and safest to treat them as if they are the same thing. This stuff that you are dealing with – words, language, writing – this is dangerous, it is magical, treat it as if it was radioactive.
If you want to expand people’s consciousness, give them better language, wider language, new words. Learn to love words, learn to delight over a new word that you’ve found.
This is one of my favorite scenes from WKRP. I can see someone doing something like this for a Table Topic in Toastmasters
