Something To Think About Archive

Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright said: “I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.”

According to former Mouseketeer the late Annette Funicello who suffered from Multiple Sclerosis, “Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.”

Even CNN’s Fareed Zakaria recently acknowledged that America’s so-called “elite” universities have lost face given that they have “gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas” whose “good intentions have morphed into a dogmatic ideology” and “where the pervasive goals are political and social engineering, not academic merit.”

Customer service guru Holly Stiel notes that “Successful people know fear – but forge ahead anyway.”

California is facing a $68 billion budget deficit this year and yet Gavin Newsom and the Democrats in Sacramento continue to spend money they don’t have including $3.1 billion on health insurance for some 700,000 illegal immigrants.

Writer Germany Kent reminds us to “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.”

It’s been said that “A man who dies too rich has lived too poorly.”

Poet Robert Frost advised us to “Love what’s lovable and hate what’s hateable.”

Playwright, screenwriter, and author David Mamet notes that “The Committee is a tool in movies as in government, devouring the greatest of the organization’s resources. It might seem to exist as Counsel of the Wise, but it is actually a mechanism for the apportionment of blame.”

According to German novelist Thomas Mann: “Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”

U.C. Berkley professor Ron Hassner points out that in a survey that he commissioned of students, 87% supported the chant “From the river to the sea” but only 47% could name the river and/or the sea, some even thinking that it was the Nile and the Caribbean. 10% thought former terrorist and PLO leader Yassar Arafat was the first prime minister of Israel; and most did not realize that the slogan meant a one-state solution with both groups living side by side, an idea that has been rejected by both sides and that it would mean the relocation or annihilation of 7 million Jews. In other words, as usual, those protesting the loudest often know the least. Kinda like with calls to “Defund the Police.”

Journalist and author William E. Vaughan once noted that “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

Take a chance. Give yourself the right to be wrong.

Walt Disney believed that “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

Three of the four longest work stoppages by unions in 2023 were the University of Michigan, Hollywood writers and Hollywood actors. Not exactly who we would think of as at the bottom of the economic food chain.

Poet Theodore Roethke claimed that “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.”

Despite his trials not being over and no verdict rendered, the Colorado Supreme Court has joined the fray of those seeking to punish an accused before their trial is even begun. Much like the House did by expelling George Santos prematurely, the four Democrats on the court voted to kick Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado on the assumption of guilt that he fomented the capital insurrection. It’s one thing for the court of public opinion to opine on guilt before a verdict, but an actual judicial body is another thing.

Writer Laura Ingalls Wilder said: “We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”

According to Actor and author Larry Wilde: “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”

Coach John Wooden believed that “Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”