“Building trust requires nothing more than telling the truth.”
—Simon Sinek.
thought for today
Zora Neale Hurston: Years
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
—Zora Neale Hurston.
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Garry Kasparov: Modern propaganda
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
~ Garry Kasparov
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Nicolas Cage: Snakes
“Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there’s the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there’s the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.”
—Nicolas Cage.
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Simon Sinek: Don’t pretend you can
“You can’t do it alone. So don’t pretend you can.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Kahlil Gibran: Are you a politician?
“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?”
—–Kahlil Gibran.
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Nikhil G Daddikar: Accountability
‘If you say a team member is “responsible” for a task, it means the outcome for that task is solely reliant on that person.
However, in the event they fail to complete it, they are “accountable” for the outcome.
Accountability, therefore, is about ownership of outcomes.
These definitions apply across the hierarchy. e.g. If you’re a person with authority and you must make the right decisions, including hiring and delegating, you’re also an “accountable” person.’
—Nikhil G. Daddikar.
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Rowan Atkinson: Extraordinarily presumptuous
“But, actually, so many of the clerics that I’ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.”
—Rowan Atkinson.
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Simon Sinek: Arrogance versus humility
“Arrogance is thinking something is perfect after the first draft. Humility is knowing there is always room for improvement.”
—Simon Sinek.
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James Couzens: Social justice begins at home
“It is our belief that social justice begins at home. We want those who have helped us to produce this great institution and are helping to maintain it to share our prosperity. We want them to have present profits and future prospects. … Believing as we do, that a division of our earnings between capital and labor is unequal, we have sought a plan of relief suitable for our business.”
—-James Couzens.
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Simon Sinek: Every day better than the day before
“If we work to make every day better than the day before, imagine what our days will be like at the end of our lives.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Max Eastman: In favour of the status quo
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.”
—Max Eastman.
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Dyan Cannon: All is mind
“Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.”
—Dyan Cannon.
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Mel Gibson: Happiness
“The thing we’re all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we’re very lucky.”
—Mel Gibson.
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C S Lewis: Higher tribunal than him
“If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves otherwise its like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than him.”
—C.S. Lewis.
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Isaac Asimov: Computers
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
—Isaac Asimov.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson: Common love of good
“Ring out false pride in place and blood, / The civic slander and the spite; / Ring in the love of truth and right, / Ring in the common love of good.”
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Simon Sinek: We make progress
“If we think about everything we have to do, we feel overwhelmed.If we do the one thing we have to do, we make progress.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: We like haystacks, not needles
“The speed of information really doesn’t make any difference to us. It’s the processing and finally coming to some judgment that actually has some utility…it’s a judgment about the price of a business or a part of a business, a security, versus what it’s essentially worth. And none of that involves anything to do, really, with quick information. It involves getting good information…. We’re not looking for needles in haystacks or anything of the sort…We like haystacks, not needles, basically. And we want it to shout at us.”
—Warren Buffett.
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Christine Lagarde: Aging population
“I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it’s almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.”
—-Christine Lagarde.
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George Marshall: Prevent war to win it
“The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.”
—George Marshall.
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John Denver: Generation of young people
“I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don’t think it’s going to get any better.”
—John Denver.
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L P Hartley: Foreign country
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
—L.P. Hartley.
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Eliza Dushku: What do you have to lose?
“Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?”
—Eliza Dushku.
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Simon Sinek: Losing and failing
“There is a difference between losing and failing.Losing reflects the score. Failing reflects our attitude.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Pablo Casals: Love of one’s country
“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”
—Pablo Casals.
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Mary Tyler Moore: Cloning
“There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.”
—Mary Tyler Moore.
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Turkish proverb: Look, he is one of us
‘The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because the handle was made of wood and they said ” Look, he is one of us”.’
~ Turkish proverb.
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Simon Sinek: Great structures
“An architect imagines what if. A builder figures out how to. Great structures emerge only when the two work well together.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Rose Franken: Real lovers
“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.”
—Rose Franken.
