“Eliminate what doesn’t matter to make more room for what does.” — 7 Design Principles, Inspired By Zen Wisdom | Co.Design: business innovation design
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“I look around at this effervescent culture, at these smart, funny, hard-working people I call friends and colleagues, and I know we’re in this together. They know it, too. We won’t let each other down.” — Employer Explains Why He Went Into Debt To Make Workers Rich - Careers Articles
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“A true work of art is one with intentionally imperfect beauty that makes an artist of the viewer” — 7 Design Principles, Inspired By Zen Wisdom | Co.Design: business innovation design
“To understand the Zen principles, a good starting point is shibumi. It is an overarching concept, an ideal. It has no precise definition in Japanese, but its meaning is reserved for objects and experiences that exhibit in paradox and all at once the very best of everything and nothing: Elegant simplicity. Effortless effectiveness. Understated excellence. Beautiful imperfection.” — 7 Design Principles, Inspired By Zen Wisdom | Co.Design: business innovation design
“HAPPINESS is the true end and aim of life. It is the task of intelligence to ascertain the conditions of happiness, and when found the truly wise will live in accordance with them. By happiness is meant not simply the joy of eating and drinking—the gratification of the appetite—but good, wellbeing, in the highest and noblest forms. The joy that springs from obligation discharged, from duty done, from generous acts, from being true to the ideal, from a perception of the beautiful in nature, art and conduct. The happiness that is born of and gives birth to poetry and music, that follows the gratification of the highest wants.” — The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) by Robert G. Ingersoll
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“Yet across the developing world, the concept of “frugal innovation” is being applied to create lean solutions that deliver improved or previously non-existent services by stripping down products to the level of basic need and identifying imaginative ways of using old technology.” — 5 Transformational Forces That Should Be Driving The Social Sector (But Aren’t) | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
“Things that you were sure were true now are something different. For challenges like this, the quest to get to some higher, “better” point needs to be perpetual, with a focus on constant learning as circumstances evolve and situations change.” — Landscapes and Liberating Structures - Plexus Institute