Tariq Ismail

This is my blog; this is where I post links for things I want to share; this is where I’m learning and testing out my skills; this is my digital playground.

//bio: student @ u of western ontario/student of business+accounting+entrepreneurship+media+social marketing/

//although i’ve designed websites, i’m decent with photoshop, i can develop a CMS based site, i can produce audio, and i can manage a company’s accounts from bookkeeping to fiscal year closing. i’m neither a designer, an audio technician, nor an accountant/i consider myself to be a professional problem solver: results driven, goal oriented, and objective, i like to be put in difficult situations & learn, think, and solve those situations in the most effective and efficient manners/i am a strategist-seeking inventive, inspirational, and innovative ways to approach complex problems finding the best possible solutions & best possible outcomes.

//education: american school of dubai/university of western ontario/

//current engagement: flip media fz-llc

//past engagements: iunitus creative marketing/innov8 developments/onyx apparel/best homes real estate

//other affiliations (past+present): aldarholding/gadit foundation/social science students’ council @uwo/

favorite quotes are most revealing about a persons character+values:

“Life is change.
Growth is Opportunity.
Choose Wisely.”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” -Ralph Marston

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” -Aristotle

“What’s the thing that you do that you can’t stand when someone does it better than you? Now become the best at that thing.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” -Socrates

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” -Dr. Seuss

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” -Albert Einstein

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw

“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.” -Susan B. Anthony

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” -Henry Ford

“All children are born artists. The problem is to remain artists as we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” -Martin Luther King Jr.