Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it’s gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief – that’s more terrible than dying – more terrible than dying young’ — Maxwell Anderson (in the play Joan of Lorraine,…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ — E L Doctorow #thoughtfortoday #writer #writer #birdbybird #AnneLamott On a recent Zoominar with Daniel Pink, he introduced some special guests. One was…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.’   — Albert Einstein   #thoughtfortoday #teacher #teaching #joy #learning #creativity #knowledge   As I sit down on a blustery and showery day to read my teaching manuals, ready for my next submissions for…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Assumptions are the termites of relationships.’ — Henry Winkler #thoughtfortoday #assumptions #knowledge #fillinginthegaps #judging #curiosity Assumptions are what we use to fill in the gaps in our knowledge. Not all assumptions are bad, but we don’t often recognise that they are fictional (even when right). When we assume that we know…

📅 Thought for today: ‘After every storm, the sun will smile; for every problem, there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.’ — William R. Alger #thoughtfortoday #storm #Eunice #solution #goodcheer When we are in emotional distress, we try to assuage the pain. We share our misery with…

📅 Thought for today: ‘If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”‘ — Dave Barry #thoughtfortoday #davebarry #humour #meetings #timesuck Yesterday I wrote about P J O’Rourke and it brought to mind someone else…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.’   — P J O’Rourke   #thoughtfortoday #pjorourke #satirist #journalist #rollingstone   There was a time when I read…

📅 Thought for today: ‘My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.’ — Ellen Langer #thoughtfortoday #ideas #creativity #control #illusion #influence #EllenLanger #mindfulness I started looking for the origin of the “Illusion of Control” – a phrase that I use a lot…

📅 Thought for today: ‘A loving heart is the truest wisdom.’ — Charles Dickens #thoughtfortoday #valentines #love #loving #heart #wisdom On Valentine’s day, an entire industry makes hay and we profess our love to the one(s) that matter the most to us. I am, as always, wondering about love in many contexts, and in particular,…

📅 Thought for today: ‘When the rich make war it’s the poor that die.’ — Jean-Paul Sartre #thoughtfortoday #sartre #war #rich #poor #baking A deep thinker and existentialist for a rainy Sunday. Something that is on our minds, why does it have to be this way? I remember as an early teen having nightmares about…