Brian Dusablon

Heart & Mind

“SINGING INTO A MICROPHONE AND LEARNING TO PLAY AN INSTRUMENT…THAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR PEOPLE TO DO… IT’S NOT ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN A COMPUTER. IT’S ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN HERE AND HERE (POINTS TO HEART AND HEAD.)”

- Dave Grohl on Fast CoCreate

A Pretty Easy Choice

Excellent. An easy choice, indeed.

“We keep bringing more magic into the world, but rising expectations mean that there’s more disappointment as well.

That’s part of the deal of being in the world.

The alternative, I’m afraid, isn’t to choose a path where we make everyone happy and always exceed their expectations. Nope. The alternative is to hide, to fail to engage and to produce nothing.

A pretty easy choice.”

Seth Godin – “You will be disappointed”

(via Koreen)

A Nonconforming Minority

“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

(via Seth)

Give Yourself Some Time

“Give yourself some time to write, to record, to photograph, to think.”

David Tate: “The Dangerous Effects of Reading”

Advice for Heroes

If we’re going to make our neighborhoods and communities better, if we’re going to improve the places we dwell… we need to be the heroes we’re seeking. You only become a hero by doing something brave, which requires you to have fear.

My advice to everyone: steer into the fear… and grow.

- Aaron Silvers: “Steer Into the Fear