Two Thoughts (5 - 11 March)

Sunday 5 March

Two thoughts from Donna Meadow:

“Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.”

“You can drive a system crazy by muddying its information streams.”

Monday 6 March

Two thoughts from Deepak Malhotra:

“Do not force people to choose between doing what is smart and doing what helps them save face.”

"It is not titles that honour men, But men that honour titles"

Tuesday 7 March

Two thoughts from Walter Benjamin:

“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”

“Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.”

Wednesday 8 March

Two thoughts from David Richo:

“Yes is the brave ally of serenity; no is the scared accomplice of anxiety.”

“To create a pause between the stimulus and your reaction, add a truth to every defensive answer. For a healthy adult, the truth is the only defense.”

Thursday 9 March

Two thoughts from Peter Bevelin:

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”

“The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.”

Friday 10 March

Two thoughts from Laurence Gonzales:

“Shit happens, and if we just want to restrict ourselves to things where shit can't happen... we're not going to do anything very interesting.”

“Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little.”

Saturday 11 March

Two thoughts from Jack Weatherford:

“If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.”

"Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy."

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