Something To Think About Archive

Author Gore Vidal defined a “Narcissist” as “… someone better looking than you are.”

According to Coach John Wooden, “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

“Don’t be humble;” advised Golda Meir “You’re not that great.”

Harry Truman defined a “Statesman” as “… a politician who has been dead ten to fifteen years.”

Historian Arnold Toynbee once noted that “…civilizations fall when their leaders can no longer command the respect of the masses.”

Even former Democrat Governor and Attorney General of New York Andrew Cuomo has said publicly that the hush money case should have never been brought against Trump. According to Cuomo, “…if his name was not Donald Trump, and if he wasn’t running for president—I’m telling you that case would have never been brought.” Cuomo goes on to note “…that’s what is offensive to people. And it should be. Because if there’s anything left, it’s belief in the justice system.” Or was left we would add.

As Canadian author L.M. Montgomery said “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

Author Alan Cohen says to “Focus on what you are moving toward rather than what you are leaving behind.”

An economic “depression” has been defined as “…a period when people do without the things their parents never had.”

Winston Churchill claimed that “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

We can’t help but be reminded by the current attempts by the White House and Biden Family to project the President as hale and hearty and fully capable of governing, as long as it’s between 10am and 4pm, as akin to the efforts by FDR’s staff to do the same with him; denying the true state of his health carrying him through his failure to contain the Soviet Union at Yalta post-World War II and right up until his death, notably while still in office.

While we are firm believer in the Constitution including the Second Amendment, we have to agree 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.

“Life is a great big canvas,” noted actor Danny Kaye “and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”

Poet James Russell Lowell believed that “The misfortunes that are hardest to bear are those that never come.”

Longfellow wrote: “It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said: “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation, evermore!”

Civil rights activist and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman defined “Failure” as “…just another way to learn how to do something right.”

Urban crime has run rampant in California causing many much-needed retail outlets in those same urban areas serving low income populations to close. The repeal of portions of Prop 47 will hopefully reinstate harsher penalties for theft and drug violations and will go a long way to repairing the damage caused by this ill-conceived change in prosecutorial standards.

Self-help author Diana Scharf Hunt calls “Goals” “… dreams with deadlines.”

Organizational consultant Walter Bennis defined “Leadership” as “the capacity to translate vision into reality.”