Two Thoughts (22 - 28 June)
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Sunday, 22 June
Two thoughts from Willard Van Orman Quine
“Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.”
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.”
Monday, 23 June
Two thoughts from Jim Mattis
“You don’t always control your circumstances, but you can always control your response.”
“If the risk takers are punished, then you will retain in your ranks only the risk averse.”
Tuesday, 24 June
Two thoughts from Stanley McChrystal
“Organizations must be networked, not siloed, in order to succeed.”
“Setting oneself on a predetermined course in unknown waters is the perfect way to sail straight into an iceberg.”
Wednesday, 25 June
Two thoughts from Marshall McLuhan
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
“The future of work consists of learning a living.”
Thursday, 26 June
Two thoughts from Philip K. Dick
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
“When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.”
Friday, 27 June
Two thoughts from John Wooden
"I don't give advice, I give opinions."
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
Saturday, 28 June
Two thoughts from Horace Greeley
"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."
"Apathy is a sort of living oblivion."
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Dear Jim,
Great quotes this week! Some of my faves:
Willard Van Orman Quine:
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.”
Jim Mattis:
“You don’t always control your circumstances, but you can always control your response.”
Philip K. Dick:
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
“When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.”
John Wooden:
"I don't give advice, I give opinions."
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
Thanks so much for sharing as always!
Love
Myq
McLuhan was ahead of his time.
“We shape our tools, and thereafter they shape us.” -- Father John Culkin on Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media (https://webspace.royalroads.ca/llefevre/wp-content/uploads/sites/258/2017/08/A-Schoolmans-Guide-to-Marshall-McLuhan-1.pdf)
The Mind Has No Firewall (https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1871&context=parameters)