Sunday, 6 September
Two thoughts from Denzel Washington
“I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.”
“Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.”
Monday, 7 September
Two thoughts from Herman Kahn
“Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.”
“I’m against ignorance. I’m against sloppy, emotional thinking. I’m against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.”
Tuesday, 8 September
Two thoughts from Ram Dass
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”
“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”
Wednesday, 9 September
Two thoughts from Immanuel Kant
“I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.”
“Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding — that is the motto of the Enlightenment.”
Thursday, 10 September
Two thoughts from James Madison
“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
“The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”
Friday, 11 September
Two thoughts from Euripides
“The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking their own judgment.”
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Saturday, 12 September
Two thoughts from Paul Simon
“All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school; It’s a wonder I can think at all.”
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