Something To Think About Archive

Marcus Aurelius said: “The true worth of a manis to be measured by the objects he pursues.”

“The only sure thing about luck;” wrote Bret Harte, “is that it will change.”

Makeup entrepreneur Mary Kay Ash said: “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.”

It’s been said that “If we’re not making mistakes, we’re not going anywhere.”

The CIA has finally joined the FBI and openly admitted that the Covid outbreak was, in all probability, the result of a Wuhan lab leak and not a “natural” occurrence. What is unfathomable is why the U.S. was funding research in China in the first place, much less biological gain of function research. Why would we be helping anyone, much less China, with the creation of potential bio-weaponry?

Swiss playwright Max Frisch once noted that “Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.”

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.”