How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (1929-1945)
What is the worst?
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity.
are full of passionate intensity.
-William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)
Real soldiers
Ethics, decency, and morality are the real soldiers.
-Kiran Bedi, police officer and social activist (b. 9 Jun 1949)
-Kiran Bedi, police officer and social activist (b. 9 Jun 1949)
...learn the difference
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.
-Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)
...added to the happiness
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith, economist (1723-1790)
...their kind of love
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
-Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983)
...more dangerous
There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.
-Lawrence Lessig, professor and political activist (b. 3 Jun 1961)
..more complete world
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
-Henry Beston, naturalist and author (1888-1968)
...unread book
Your love to me was like an unread book.
-Countee Cullen, poet, novelist, and playwright (1903-1946)
Things to do...
Quick Capture: Drafts or Apple Notes (fleeting ideas in day)
Slow Capture: Notebook & Pen (journal & sketch)
Long Capture: Obsidian (examining & colliding ideas)
Sorriness Vs Sorriest
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
-Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (1840-1928)
What if Vs. EVEN IF
Replace "what if" with "EVEN IF."
"Even if I fail, I'll learn something valuable."
"Even if people judge me, I'll grow stronger."
"Even if I'm not perfect, I'll be better than yesterday."
"Even if I fail, I'll learn something valuable."
"Even if people judge me, I'll grow stronger."
"Even if I'm not perfect, I'll be better than yesterday."
Stabilize Your Strategy in Uncertain Times
When conditions shift faster than your strategy can adapt, paralysis can set in. Plans lose relevance. Priorities get murky. But waiting for clarity isn't an option; you need to move forward—quickly and flexibly. Here's how to keep your strategy effective in uncertain times.
- Prioritize cash and financial flexibility.
- Rebuild commercial strength.
- Focus on your most profitable customers.
- Get serious about risk and cybersecurity.
...nothing is dearer
To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.
-Euripides, playwright (c. 480-406 BCE)
-Euripides, playwright (c. 480-406 BCE)
Necessity is...
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
-William Pitt, British prime minister (1759-1806)
Objector Vs Warrior
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
-John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)
...not weakness
Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
-Hubert Humphrey, US Vice President (1911-1978)
Passion: Natural and reasonable
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, author (1689-1762)
Action & inaction
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
-John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
What are the odds?
What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
-Theodore Roethke, poet (1908-1963)
Eliminate the impossible
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (1859-1930)
...wiser today than
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744)
Team Work - build progress
"The strength of a manufacturing operation lies in the teamwork on the shop floor. When everyone collaborates to solve problems, you don't just build products—you build progress."
– Cynthia Fanning, GE Appliances.
Something Great
"Manufacturing is a team sport. No one person can do it all—success comes from every worker, engineer, and manager pulling together to make something great."
– James Dyson, founder of Dyson Ltd.
I know...
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
-Salvador Dali, painter (1904-1989)
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