Illness is in part what the world has done to a victim, but in a larger part it is what the victim has done with his world.
-Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist (1893-1990)
...extraordinary destiny
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."
~ C. S. Lewis
will find strength
"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
~ Marcus Aurelius
...what was war?
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?”
-Eve Merriam, poet and writer (1916-1992)
-Eve Merriam, poet and writer (1916-1992)
...struggles develop your strength
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
...not calm water
"Anyone can take the wheel of the ship in calm water but it's not so easy when it's not calm water. You can't just enjoy the good times, you have to be resilient in the tough times."
~ Sean Dyche
...bends is stronger than
"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."
~ Japanese Proverb
setbacks can...
"If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities."
~ Jay Shetty
Do the... easy & small
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small."
~ Lao Tzu
Insignificant...?
Every extra step is a silent cost.
What feels insignificant once becomes expensive when repeated thousands of times.
What feels insignificant once becomes expensive when repeated thousands of times.
...everything
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski, engineer, mathematician, and philosopher (1879-1950)
-Alfred Korzybski, engineer, mathematician, and philosopher (1879-1950)
Execution is where leadership becomes visible
McKinsey noted that healthy organizations turn vision into results through four key elements:
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03Capabilities
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...short decisive war?
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
-Robert Lynd, writer (1879-1949)
History by geography
History is all explained by geography.
-Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (1905-1989)
...wrong questions
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
-Thomas Pynchon, novelist (b. 8 May 1937)
the more mistakes.... Style
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.
-Fred Astaire, dancer, actor, singer, musician, and choreographer (1899-1987)
..towards uncharitable
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. -J.S. Buckminster, clergyman and editor (1784-1812)
said in verse
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.
-Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (1840-1928)
telling the truth
There are many forms of patriotism and telling the truth is one of them.
-Anderson Cooper, journalist and commentator (b. 3 Jun 1967)
...some
Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
-Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)
escaping from old
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
-John Maynard Keynes, economist (1883-1946)
...brings inspiration
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration.
-Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971)
...forgiveness
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
-Norman Cousins, author, editor, journalist, and professor (1915-1990)
...silent cost
Every extra step is a silent cost.
Complexity accumulates quietly; value doesn't.
What feels insignificant once becomes expensive when repeated thousands of times.
What feels insignificant once becomes expensive when repeated thousands of times.
Victory & Defeat
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
-Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)
All Quiet on the Western Front
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.
-Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (1898-1970), in "All Quiet on the Western Front"
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