Something To Think About Archive

According to a Navajo saying: “Act as if everybody was related to you.”

Bertrand Russell: “The trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

Playwright and novelist Betty Smith advised us to “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it for the first or last time.”

According to actor Steve Coogan: “The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.”

In four years, the Biden Administration issued 1213 new regulations that, according to the American Action Forum, will cost $1.9 trillion over the first ten years these new rules are in effect. This far exceeds the expense of the actions of prior Administrations. We can only hope that the next four years will see a rollback of the onerous burdens of all this red tape, particularly the direct and indirect electric car mandates.

Author Pau-Choudhury writes: “If we want the world to be better tomorrow than it is today, we first have to expect that it will be. Then we have to imagine the ways in which it could be. And then we have to ensure that it will be.”

Entrepreneur Paul Hawken says that “Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.”

According to playwright Hillary DePiano, “We all get the same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.”

Thomas Edison said: “I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.”

Businessman Harold Geneen claimed that “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

“(It was) something out of 1984” Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally admitted, referring to their Trump era censorship of content that was misguided and flat out wrong. He now says that “We’ve reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes and too much censorship.” And he adds, “The recent elections also feel like a tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.” We assume that he means free speech and since when has that ever not been a cornerstone of American liberty? Other than in Silicon Valley.

It’s been said that “There are no problems that aren’t made at least slightly better by a long walk, and none that are made worse.”

It’s been said that ”With clear vision you may see where you are going, but without strong, well-articulated values, it may not be worth taking the trip.”

Columnist Burton Hillis wrote: “There’s a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons, and reasons that sound good.”

According to Joe Namath, “To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going.”

FDR said: “To stand upon our ramparts and die for our principles is heroic. But to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.”

The federal budget ballooned by almost 50% in 2020 due to Covid. Fair enough given that unemployment skyrocketed from 6 million to 23 million. But why is the budget still so bloated at $7.3 trillion as proposed by the outgoing Biden Administration for 2025? Why hasn’t it returned to a more reasonable inflation-adjusted $5.5 trillion which, coincidently, matches revenue projections for 2025. The federal debt, in just 6 short years, has exploded 650% from $5.5 trillion to $36 trillion. We hope that the Trump Administration brings with it some sanity and fiscal responsibility.

Writer L.M. Montogomery asks: “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

If you’re going to play the game, any game, remember: It is just a game.

Mark Twain once noted that “The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”