When you decide – follow it up with action as spontaneously as possible if not sooner because the quicker you reciprocate with the decision the sooner you shall see results (Auliq Ice)
… you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall
… you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall. (Nell Freudenberger, The Dissident)
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services (Imran Khan)
I recalled my father-in-law’s aphorism “To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom…” & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye
I recalled my father-in-law’s aphorism “To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom…” & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye (David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas)
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically… the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature… I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically… the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature… I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids (Baruch Spinoza, Ethics)
500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of themagnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of “vision,” anddarkness helps us “see
500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of themagnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of “vision,” anddarkness helps us “see (Alija Izetbegović, Notes from Prison)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. (Henry David Thoreau)
Only you can succeed in converting your values into product can you win the battle against time – Sunday Adelaja
Only you can succeed in converting your values into product can you win the battle against time – Sunday Adelaja
One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you’re happy with that, don’t push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much
One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you’re happy with that, don’t push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much (Jael McHenry)
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end (Idries Shah, Reflections)