Showing results for "Motivation" in Art & Literature

Sometimes, a little nudge from the universe pushes one to find his raison d'etre in life. If actor Sonu Sood had given in to the celebrity syndrome of sitting in his ivory tower and expressing his generosity by remote control, he would have never come face to face with the trauma of India's...

Danielle Bernstein spent her youth shopping at discount department stores, getting boozy in suburban backyards, and proposing marriage to every boy she dated. By age 19, she was a college dropout living in a West Village shoebox with three roommates and only six months to prove that her blog, @WeWoreWhat, could become a full blown career...or else board the train back to her mom's house. This Is Not a Fashion Story is the down and dirty tale of how a Long Island-born teenager became one of the most recognizable names in fashion.

Não existe um vestir neutro, mesmo que você escolha estar de bege da cabeça aos pés. Somos seres que influenciam e que são influenciados. Sintya Motta e Leila Rabello trazem o conceito de cognição do vestuário para a realidade brasileira. Com base nele, pretendem ampliar o entendimento acerca do poder que as roupas têm sobre a construção de uma autoimagem positiva, a partir da qual possamos sentir mais bem-estar, mais autoconfiança e, até mesmo, mais produtividade nas nossas tarefas – inclusive em tempos de home office.

The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the island nobility, the City of Refuge on the Kona coast, and the active volcano of Kilauea. These selections of Mark Twain's newspaper dispatches are both charming and informative. The light touch of the great humorist is seldom missing as he reveals the "loveliest fleet of islands that lie anchored in any ocean".