Sunday, 4 October
Two thoughts from John Galsworthy
“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.”
“Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.”
Monday, 5 October
Two thoughts from Arthur Miller
“No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.”
“A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.”
Tuesday, 6 October
Two thoughts from Nathan W. Morris
“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.”
“It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.”
Wednesday, 7 October
Two thoughts from Eliyahu M. Goldratt
“Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.”
“An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question.”
Thursday, 8 October
Two thoughts from Bertrand de Jouvenel
“Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.”
“A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.”
Friday, 9 October
Two thoughts from Virginia Woolf
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
Saturday, 10 October
Two thoughts from Charles Darwin
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
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