Sunday, 25 October
Two thoughts from Dashiell Hammett
“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”
“The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.”
Monday, 26 October
Two thoughts from Rex Stout
“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
“I don’t answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.”
Tuesday, 27 October
Two thoughts from Sharon Kay Penman
“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”
“For every wound, the ointment of time.”
Wednesday, 28 October
Two thoughts from B.B. King
“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”
“If my health should get bad...I probably would retire. But other than that, we don’t use that word around here. The R-word, we forget it”.
Thursday, 29 October
Two thoughts from Desmond Tutu
“Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.”
“My father always used to say, don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”
Friday, 30 October
Two thoughts from George Lois
“Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job.”
“Creativity is not created, it is there for us to find—it is an act of discovery.”
Saturday, 31 October
Two thoughts from Aristophanes
“A man can learn wisdom even from a foe.”
“Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.”
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