You cannot make progress without making decisions
Jim Rohn
The books that matter to me…are those that galvanise something inside me. I rea books to read myself
Sven Birkerts
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous
Calvin Coolidge
Connections lead you. Implications bleed you.
Alan Robert Neal
True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god
Mark Twain
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last
Marcel Proust
Human beings just describe thing good or bad depending on whether it benefits them.
Thomas Hobbes
We’re naturally going to prefer our own imposition and this is going to lead war and conflict.
Thomas Hobbes
The absurd is lucid reason noting it’s limits
Albert Camus
When you deny something your power is more conspicuous than when you approve it
Vladimir Voionovich
Amazing how quickly the past becomes idyllic
Margaret Atwood
Smiles come best from those who weep
Rumi
All things make sense, you just have to fathom how they make sense
Pier Anthony
An apology without change is just manipulation.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you don’t pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the centre. Dean Rusk
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. Abraham Maslow
People leave when life becomes untenable where they are. Isabel Wilkerson
A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. Confucius
Objectivity is the baseline
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial