Brainstormy Weather: 2012

It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can’t come close to containing it all.

~ Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin

Excuses are tools of the incompetent. They build bridges that lead to nowhere. Those who indulge in them, seldom accomplish anything at all.

- Jonathan Harris

Stranger! If you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, To You

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.

- T.E Lawrence

UBS "Stephen Wiltshire" from HUMBLE TV on Vimeo.
Director/DP Noah David Smith recently teamed up with humble and Publicis to shoot a touching film for UBS featuring artist, Stephen Wiltshire. After spending the early years of his life as a mute Stephen found his voice through drawing. Later diagnosed with autism, drawing began to be the way he communicated with the world. At age nine he began to speak and his art continued to flourish. Stephen has the amazing talent of drawing city skylines from memory. Having spent only a few hours in a helicopter flying from Brooklyn to the tip of Manhattan, he memorized the city skyline and headed back to a studio to begin his drawing. Stephen then spent the next 3 days sketching the skyline. The panoramic drawing will be featured on a billboard that will be displayed at JFK airport terminal The piece speaks to the vision of the UBS campaign “We will not rest”.

Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard - Star Trek: Generations

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

- Sarah Dessen

“If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”

— Bill Cosby

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

Watch this exclusive tribute by Steve Porter for Muhammad Ali - the special guest of Team USA's 2012 Benefit Gala hosted at USA House the night before the London 2012 Opening Ceremony.

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes. Ferdinand von Schrubentaufft

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five. Benjamin Franklin

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

MAHATMA GANDHI

The future belongs to the few of us still willing to get our hands dirty.

"And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about." — John Steinbeck, East of Eden