Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘There comes a point in politics where loyalty to the party is disloyalty to the country.’ — W A C Harvey #thoughtfortoday #politics #loyalty #country #animalfarm #equalnotequal #blindeye #tonedeaf This is one of those quotes that has been in my “databank” for a while – when I first started using a…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Perseverance doesn’t always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.’   — Michael Chiesa   #thoughtfortoday #winning #perserverance #losing #showingup   I waited to post today until the Formula One Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi was decided.   I had to wait…

📅 Thought for today: ‘When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.’ — Raja Krishnamoorthi #thoughtfortoday #compassionate #morality #honesty #humility #agreeable #considerate Yesterday I wrote about psychopathy and the Hare Checklist. Today I’ve been looking at the opposite. Interestingly, all but one of the traits of a psychopath…

📅 Thought for today: ‘All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them.’ — Robert Hare #thoughtfortoday #RobertHare #psychologist #psychopath #psychopathy #conned #bewildered The topic of psychopaths and psychopathy have come up in conversations this…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.’ — Albus Dumbledore (as told by J K Rowling in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) #thoughtfortoday #theatre #light #darkness #happiness #HarryPotter #Dumbledore I never let the fact that a quote…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.’ — Gail Godwin #thoughtfortoday #theatre #teaching #learning #certification #liveperformance #HarryPotter My teaching certification is progressing slowly, this has been a busy period in the run-up to the holidays. I hope to get my submissions in for review during the break, and get…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘I think it’s a shame that people are so quick to put you in a box; sometimes it’s as if you do one thing, and that’s all you’re allowed to do.’   — Lewis Hamilton   #thoughtfortoday #formula1 #jeddah #judgement #boxboxbox #prejudice #lewis   I have followed Formula 1 since…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.’ — Susan Ertz #thoughtfortoday #immortality #sunday #rainy #afternoon #thingstodo #nothingtodo #happy It is a lazy Sunday afternoon. I started the day with a long list of things “to do”. Then I went through the…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I love my peace and quiet. I love to be with my family.’ — Neeti Mohan #thoughtfortoday #peace #quiet #mindfulness #meditation #breathe #takeamoment #calm Try this now if you can. Stop. Take a moment from your busy thinking and doing, just a brief moment, right now. I know, you have lots…