Jonathan Kozel said, “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” This makes a lot of sense to me. Sometimes we pick battles that don’t matter at all, that we will never win, and put a huge amount…
Austin O’Malley said, “Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.” I like being honest. For the most part it’s easy but sometimes people are really asking you to lie to them when they ask…
Walter Savage Landor said, “Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.” How often do you bend? Sometimes bending is disguised as compromise. A word I’m not that keen on but it seems to…
Elbert Hubbard said, “To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” Don’t let criticism stop you in your tracks. It is better to be criticised for doing something than to be doing nothing and not moving forward. Do…
Howard Ikemoto said, “When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw….
Josh Billings said, “Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.” How true is this? I think if you look around and listen or watch the news it becomes quite apparent that genius is often nothing more than common sense….
There is a Buddhist Proverb that goes, “When the student is ready, the master appears.” I zipped past this quote today and then had a thought so decided to use it. My thought was how do we recognise the ‘master’….
Erno Rubik said, “Our whole life is solving puzzles.” Erno would know because he invented one of the best puzzles ever, the Rubiks Cube. I don’t know about you but I’m always solving puzzles. From what to have for breakfast…
Someone once said, “When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you’ve growled all day long.” How often do you come home worn out after having a bad day where your workmates or colleagues couldn’t do anything…
George Bernard Shaw said, “All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.” Mr Shaw was a giant of a man in not only literary skills but what he accomplished in his life. He was injured, almost killed countless…
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