Category Archives: Quotation
Crisis Management ~ Einstein
“In a crisis if I had only an hour
I’d spend the first 50 minutes
defining the problem and the
last 10 minutes solving it.”
~Albert Einstein
FollowPain & Pleasure ~ Pema Chodran
“Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.”
~Pema Chodran
from When Things Fall Apart (page 61)
If You Want to Be a Leader ~ Lao Tzu
If you want to be a great leader,
you must learn to follow the Tao.
Stop trying to control.
Let go of fixed plans and concepts,
and the world will govern itself.
The more prohibitions you have,
the less virtuous people will be.
The more weapons you … Continue reading
In a world of change… ~ Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
“In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”
— Eric Hoffer
Growing Old ~ Samuel Ullman
Nobody grows old. merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~ Samuel Ullman
Simplicity ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity; I would give everything for the simplicity on the far side of complexity.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love Expands Intelligence ~ Maturana
“Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.”
~ Humberto Maturana
Knowing ~ Socrates
“The only true wisdom is to know you know nothing.”
~ Socrates
The Way Things Are ~ Talmud
We don’t see things as they are. We only see things as we are.
~ Talmud
What the World Needs
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what make you come alive. And then go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~Howard Thurman