Something To Think About Archive

Theodore Roosevelt believed that “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

It’s been said that “Old age means that you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.”

The late great comedian Bob Newhart said: “If you can laugh, you can get through it.”

Psychologist and philosopher Willam James believed that “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

Writer Barbara Hower once noted that “I’ve never known anybody who doesn’t have insecurities. You harness them and make them work for you.”

We get that playing politics isn’t softball but Democratic Party leaders stripping Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil of all her committee assignments at the state capitol is pure payback for her decision to switch parties putting her more in line with her constituency. But, rather than hurting her, it has hurt us by robbing her district of representation on committees that could be impactful.

According to author John C. Maxwell, “If you think you are leading a team. Department or organization and no one is following … you are just out for a walk.”

Author William A. White once observed that “I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday, and I love today.”

We presume that the late Martin Mull was talking about the obsession with online so-called “influencers” when he asked: “Why be influenced by a person when you are one?”

Coach K says that “Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway no matter which way the wind blows.”

“You want to become a master at overcoming hard moments;” says tennis champion Roger Federer. “That to me is the sign of a champion.”

After spending $230 million on a temporary Gaza port pier that was constructed in May to bring aid to Gaza and operated for a total of just twenty days, the Pentagon shut it down last month citing several technical and logistical issues affecting its operations. In other words, it was a bad idea executed poorly that did nothing as intended and that cost us real money that could have been spent on real American, and even mid-east, problems.

Steven Wright notes that “Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.”

“The way to get started,” noted Walt Disney, “is to quit talking and begin.”

It’s been pointed out that saying Congress and the White House spend like the proverbial “drunken sailor” is an insult to drunken sailors everywhere.

A wise person acknowledges his mistakes. A fool will defend his.

La Rochefoucauld said: “Few people know how to be old.”

While we are firm believer in the Constitution as a governing document, including the Second Amendment, we can’t disagree with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 8 to 1 decision upholding a federal law that forbids domestic abusers from possessing guns. Gun ownership and legal carry is a right that should also be exercised as a deserved and earned privilege.

18^th century French writer Sebastion Chamfort claimed that “If it were not for the government, we would have nothing to laugh at in France.”

Ambrose Bierce wrote: “Hope is desire and expectation rolled into on.”