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“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” ~ Steve Jobs
GETTING THE JOBS DONE
To individuals born outside the United States Of America, Steve Jobs was the epitome of the golden dream that was available in America. Steve Jobs died yesterday, October 5, 2011. ‘Died’ doesn’t seem to ‘compute’ with him, does it? His aura and radiance has touched all our lives in one way or another. This article is dedicated to him, his vision, and the higher place he held humanity. He was an orphan, given up by his birth mother. Did you know that? And when he went to college, he hated it, so he dropped out. Following his intuition, he audited a calligraphy class and fell in love with beautiful lettering. Once again, at the beginning of his astounding journey, he turned failure in triumph. His calligraphic experience was the birth of fancy fonts on his early Macintosh inventions. Had he not been in tune with his feelings about college, in general… had he not feared disappointing his parents who raised him, fancy fonts never would have been born.
This article will reprint comments from facebook as they appeared today, less than 24 hours after he took his last breath and his soul departed his body, the envelop that carried his life force for 56 years. We are, after all in said and done, A SPIRIT HAVING A BODY EXPERIENCE!
Look at the bite in the Apple. What do you see?
“Well done, Steve Jobs” Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged lionizes the great wealth creators–the men and women whose thought, creativity, and drive has lifted mankind from the cave to the glistening skyscrapers of New York City. As the president of the Ayn Rand Institute, I regularly speak about Atlas and there is one living person who, more than anyone else, I reference as embodying those traits: Steve Jobs. The news that Jobs is no longer with us leaves me truly heartbroken. What Jobs has always represented to me is someone who devoted his life to creating great values–who pursued his own vision, his own dreams, his own happiness. The results of his life’s work are truly astounding: the Apple II, the Macintosh, Pixar, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the iPad, and much, much more. He set out to change the world. He succeeded, and by all accounts took deep joy in his career and his achievements. He deserved it. Ever since I heard the news that Steve Jobs died, a certain passage from Atlas Shrugged keeps running through my head, although only readers of the novel will understand the full impact of the scene. Toward the end of the novel, when heroine Dagny Taggart is reunited with several men she had thought she would never see again, she says that the meeting is like a childhood dream “when you think that some day, in heaven, you will see those great departed men whom you had not seen on earth, and you choose, from all the past centuries, the great men you would like to meet.” One of the men replies: “And if you met those great men in heaven…. There’s something you’d want to hear from them. [Y]ou’d want them to look at you and to say, ‘Well done.’ … All right, then. Well done, Dagny!” If there were a heaven, filled with the great men of history, I have no doubt that they would say, “Well done, Steve Jobs.” Yaron Brook
“Tu tiempo es limitado, entonces no los desperdicies viviendo la vida de otros. No estes atrapado por los dogmas (lo que es vivir los resultados de los pensamientos de otra gente). No dejes que el ruido de las opiniones de otros ahoguen tu voz interior. Y lo mas importante, ten el coraje de seguir tu corazon y tu intuicion. Ellos de alguna manera ya saben que es lo que realmente quieres ser. Todo lo demas es secundario. “
“In both my private life and my professional life as a hypnotherapist the most important word to me is I M A G I N E. Who exemplified all that word could mean more than Steve Jobs! Rock on Steve, rock on.”
“I’m in my studio and I see a Macbook (2008), an Imac (2006) and an Apple Display (2004). In my gym bag is an ipod shuffle and on Liza’s desk is an old mac keyboard from 2004 cause the newer pc wireless one she had stopped working. The only thing I never liked were Apple Mice. I tried them all, but I always bought a cheap one from Office Depot. Jobs wasn’t perfect, but very close to it.”
