ABRACADABRA !

is actually from the aramaic phrase "Avra kehdabra" wich means literally 

"I will create as I speak"

ABRACADABRA !!

L’expérience est une lanterne accrochée dans le dos, 

qui n’éclaire que le chemin parcouru. 

 (Confucius)

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, 

you’ve launched too late.

(Reid Hoffman)

Ce qui empêche les gens de vivre ensemble, 

c'est leur connerie, pas leurs différences. 

(Anna Gavalda)

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet 

and the winds long to play with your hair. 

(Khalil Gibran)

Des gens intelligents : une bonne pièce ... sans plus. 

Give me one reason to stay here, to come to Paris 

And I'll turn right back around

(...)

Beautiful day or Why Me ? 

The risk of wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision...

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never be really elegant. 

(Honoré de Balzac)

Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty and in the point of life. 

(Thomas Jefferson)

Paris is always a good idea. 

(Audrey Hepburn)

I get by with a little help from my friends. 

(The beatles)

 

Ajoutez deux lettres à Paris et c'est le paradis.

(Jules Renard)

Live is "Nickel Chrome" in Paris 

(message for Red H.)

A bad day in Paris is still better than a good day anywhere else.

Help, I need somebody 

Help, not just anybody 

Help, you know I need someone, help

(Help, the Beatles)

I need you !

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent,

expunge the dead weight of our past.

(Michael Simkins, Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education)

 

Keep calm

and

welcome to Paris

 

 

 

How to be successful :

FOCUS on you own SHIT

Ignoring the signs is a good way to end up at the wrong destination. 

 

 

 

 

 

Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless - like water.

 

(Bruce Lee)

 

One of the hardest parts of life is deciding whether 

to walk away  

or try harder. 

In the midst of movement and chaos 

keep stillness inside of you.

(Deepak Chopra)

Life is wide, limitless.

There is no border, no frontier

(Bruce Lee)

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. 

My mom says some days are like that.

If the whole world was blind

how many people would you impress ? 

(Boonaa Mohamed)

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

(François De La Rochefoucauld)

 

Don't expect things to happen.

It's better to feel surprised than be disappointed.

I hated every minute of training, but I said 

"Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a Champion"

- Muhammad Ali -

The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.

Non, non, monseigneur, qui épouse protège. 

Qui donne la main donne le bras. 

   (Victor Hugo, Lucrèce Borgia - Acte II, première partie, scène 2)

Evey single person on the planet has a story.

Don't judge people before you truly know them.

The truth might suprise you. 

L'esprit s'enrichit de ce qu'on lui donne, 

et le coeur de ce qu'il donne. 

(Victor Hugo)

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem 

before it becomes an emergency. 

(Arnold H. Glasow)

C'est en voyant un moustique se poser sur ses testicules 

qu'on réalise qu'on ne peut pas régler tous les problèmes par la violence ... (Proverbe chinois?)

PERSEVERANCE is not a long race:

it's many short races one after the other. 

(Walter Elliot)

Etre libre, ce n'est pas seulement se débarrasser de ses chaînes, 

c'est vivre d'une façon qui respecte et renforce la liberté des autres. 

(Nelson Mandela)

Illusion d'optique > Surprenant ! 

Ecouter la forêt qui pousse plutôt que l'arbre qui tombe. 

   (Friedrich Hegel)

- Is my password safe from rusian hackers ? 

- Da !

Mixed signals

Un pas à la fois me suffit. 

(Gandhi)

Je ne t'engueule pas, je parle fort!

On savait que Hollande n'était pas un grand homme mais on découvre maintenant que c'est un petit monsieur.
(Philippe Bouvard, sur Europe1)

There are three reasons why people change : 

1. The have learned a lot. 

2.They have suffered enough.

3.They got tired of always the same thing. 

Lead from the back 

--- and let others believe they are in front. 

(Nelson Mandela)

Seul l'arbre qui a subi les assauts du vent est vraiment vigoureux, 

car c'est dans cette lutte que ses racines se fortifient. 

(Sénèque)

The grass isn't greener on the other side. 

It's greener where YOU water it. 

BearIscool aux Francofolies de Montréal. 

(Merci Guy !)

Tout ce qui est excessif est insignifiant. 

(Talleyrand)