Edwin Herbert Land, was an American scientist and inventor. Among other things, he invented the Polaroid Land camera in 1947, inexpensive filters for polarizing light, and other inventions.
Here are some quotes by Edwin Land for your enjoyment.- daniel w. jacobs
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. – Edwin Land
Any [...]
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FORWARD: Elbert Hubbard is one of my favorite authors. I like his straight-shooting, common sense wisdom, which I find as applicable in today’s world than when he lived, over a century ago.
Over the years I’ve collected most of his more popular books in signed, first editions. I wish I could also claim to [...]
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This poem is one of my favorites. It is entitled “IF” and was written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling a popular English author and poet of the late 19th and early 20th century.
The work was written in 1895 and first published in the Brother Square Toes chapter of Rewards and Fairies, Kipling’s 1910 [...]
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Posted in life, tagged challenges, joy of living, life on November 12, 2008 | 20 Comments »
You get a little too close to the edge and it hits you . . . that gripping sensation in the pit of your stomach, the dizzying feeling of trying to imagine a chasm so immense, the strange unexplainable loss of control that sweeps over you. Then you get it . . . you’re [...]
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