Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘Nothing will work unless you do.’ — Maya Angelou #thoughtfortoday #coins #quarters #MayaAngelou #nothingworks #recognition For many people, the name Maya Angelou will be familiar, quite often from her many inspiring quotes. She is on my mind this morning because I read in the paper and on BBC News that “The…

📅 Thought for today: ‘It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.’ — Charles Comiskey #thoughtfortoday #smallthings #change #drain #benefit #noticing I was due to meet a friend in London today, we’ve settled for a Zoom call instead. This is pragmatic, travelling to meet…

📅 Thought for today: ‘A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.’ — Oscar Wilde #thoughtfortoday #dreams #dreamer #daydreaming #expectation #serious #myway When I was a young lad at school, daydreaming was a crime. In fact,…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.’ — Sarah Schulman #thoughtfortoday #othering #dehumanization #echo #passagg #listen #becurious “Othering” is on my mind. It has come up in a client conversation twice this year (so the last 8 days) and was…

📅 Thought for today: ‘There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.’ — Jane Austen #thoughtfortoday #people #dependent #dependency #helping #take #leave I am not quite sure why this Jane Austen quote came to mind today. It is, I think, not related to my work. I…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.’ — Ayn Rand #thoughtfortoday #uniquereward #mankind #survival #adaptation #AynRand #CharlesDarwin I wonder how much of a reward this is. Our ability to adjust “the background” is perhaps too…

📅 Thought for today: ‘… most of mankind are not fitted by nature to a life of freely chosen leisure, because most would not know what to choose. Something equivalent to the compulsory games of the schoolboy would undoubtedly have to be instituted.’ — Sir Charles Darwin #thoughtfortoday #lifeofleisure #leisure #life #leisure #idleness It is…

📅 Thought for today: ‘If you’re defensive, you defend what you have, but you get nothing more. You don’t get bigger.’ — Rege-Jean Page #thoughtfortoday #defend #defensive #learn #grow #existential Have you ever come up against someone who is defensive – maybe because they feel attacked, or feel fear that they might be wrong? What…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interests you.’ — Leigh Steinberg #thoughtfortoday #amazing #changes #life #interest #purpose #ikigai #NFT Amazing changes are happening all around us. I can understand how it is easy to lose sight of this, there seems to be so much…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Imagination… its limits are only those of the mind itself.’ — Rod Serling #thoughtfortoday #imagination #thoughts #impossible #limits #mind Rod Serling is probably best known for the anthology TV Series “The Twilight Zone” although I think you must be “of a certain age” to remember it. Getting in the way of…