Two Thoughts (16 - 22 April)

Sunday 16 April

Two thoughts from John Muir:

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

Monday 17 April

Two thoughts from Gary Klein:

“Intuition is the use of patterns they’ve already learned, whereas insight is the discovery of new patterns.”

“We can increase insights by exposing ourselves to lots of different ideas that might help us form new connections.”

Tuesday 18 April

Two thoughts from Brian Tracy:

“The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”

“Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true.”

Wednesday 19 April

Two thoughts from Willa Cather:

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”

“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”

Thursday 20 April

Two thoughts from Steve Grand:

“Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress”

“The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.”

Friday 21 April

Two thoughts from Sharon Begley:

"We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions."

"The mind can store an estimated 100 trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac."

Saturday 22 April

Two thoughts from Bram Stoker:

"Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker."

"We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!"

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