Values

Don’t waste your breath proclaiming what’s really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.

Eric Zorn

What Not Every Employer Knows

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

Victor Hugo

Judgement

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see the good qualities before pronouncing on the bad.

Thomas Carlyle

Live for the Occasional Moment of Joy

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

William Hazlitt

Yes, I'm Prejudiced

Prejudice and bigotry is hard-wired into us. You can’t overcome it until you acknowledge it.

Eric Zorn

Feedback Loops Matter

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Winston Churchill

Do it !

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

Dale Carnegie

In General

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Alfred North Whitehead

How Poor Are You ?

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

(Anonymous)

Self-respect

Anyone who judges you by the kind of car you drive or shoes you wear isn’t someone worth impressing.

Eric Zorn

Take Control

Your life won't change unless you change it.

Hamed Okhravi

For Bankers

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Devils, Details and so on

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

For John McCain

Macho does not prove mucho.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Don't Make it Personal

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln

My Humble Opinion

It’s never a shame when you admit you don’t know something, and often a shame when you assume that you do.

Eric Zorn

Limits

You can do anything. But not everything.

David Allen

Recent Irish History Explained

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Randall Jarrell

"What Gets measured ..."

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein

Why We Need Defamation Law

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace