Moving Forward

If you take a look at the timeline of history, you’ll see that the human race tends to move forward in spite of the pack, not because of it. - Michael Hurd


Individuals innovate; groups stagnate.

Plans

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. - Goethe


The future will come, plan for it.

Getting The Truth

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth. - Alexis Carrel


Rational thought only works well if you are dealing with reality.

Time Out!

Parenting does not require martyrdom. - Jenn Casey


Though it feels like it sometimes.

Keeping Control

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the debate. - Noam Chomsky


e.g. Political Correctness.

The Right Stuff

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. - Claude Levi-Strauss


You can be a scientist without ever coming up with the "right answer."

Managed Destiny

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. - Kin Hubbard


The wise always make their own destiny.

Home! Sweet Home!

Mid pleasures and palaces  though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. - John Howard Payne


Too often we get the abreviated verse.

Educational Problem Solving

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. - Roger Lewin


And then they can't reason.

Suffering

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. - Thich Nhat Hanh


Perhaps they need something to compare to.

Inadequate Funds

It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be. - Kin Hubbard


At least don't brag about it.

Misplaced

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. - Kin Hubbard


Sometimes developing a bad memory is a good thing.

Enough Light

There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber


Too much of a good thing?

Compulsively Creative

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition. - Ed Norton


Yup, compulsion is less controllable than ambition.

Delightful Liberty

What more felicity can fall to a creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? - Edmund Spenser


Perhaps loss of liberty is needed to delight in its return.

No Defense

Honor does not have to be defended. - Robert J. Sawyer


To yourself or others.

Certain Failure

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. - Alexandre Dumas


If you have doubts about what you are capable of, don't do it.

Limitations

The freedom of speech is worthless without the freedom of offensive speech. Goebbels and Himmler were for freedom of speech that was inoffensive to the state. - Noam Chomsky

  If you decide someone needs to be limited prepare to be limited yourself. Is it worth it?

Job Skills

Masochism is a valuable job skill. - Chuck Palahniuk

  Or is it just being tough?

Weekend Trivia

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. - Chuck Palahniuk

  If someone asks you how your weekend was, don't disappoint them - ask them how their's was.

Go Team Go!

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. - Lee Iacocca

  Take a walk with a prospective team leader before you hire them for the job.

Rating Ideas

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. - Marilyn vos Savant

  May you have many sleepless nights!

Timely

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

  Be sure time put to purpose is time put to pleasure.

Mass Audience

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. - David Cronenberg

  Invented by marketers.

Sometimes It Rains

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. - Bob Dylan 

  Some care if they get wet and some don't.

Perspective

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. - Jeff Marder

  If you want to resolve this problem just put pizza parlors in the public sector.

No Credit

Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson

  Very good advice from a guy who probably never even conceived of the VISA card.

Enthusiasm in Education

Tell me....And I Forget, Teach me....And I Learn, Involve me....And I Remember. - Benjamin Franklin

  Too bad the public schools can't see the validity in this.

Lifting The Age

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. - Maxwell Anderson


If you're not a heavy lifter don't weigh down those who are.

Perfection Limitations

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and go out and explore it; don't limit it. - John Eliot, PhD

  I thought about limiting this post to just the first sentence but then it occurred to me that it would go against the Piled higher and Deeper connection.

Do A Little

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. - Edmund Burke


Doing a little here and there is neither here nor there.