Idea for reflection – 29
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
– T. S. Eliot, from The Rock
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Feb 1
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Jan 8
Idea for reflection – 28
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
– Calvin Coolidge
Idea for reflection – 27
The world we have made, as a result of the thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.
– Albert Einstein
Dec 3
Idea for reflection – 26
A great piece of art is composed not just of what is in the final piece, but equally what is not. It is the discipline to discard what does not fit—to cut out what might have already cost days or even years of effort—that distinguishes the truly exceptional artist and marks the ideal piece of work, be it a symphony, a novel, a painting, a company, or most important of all, a life.
– Jim Collins
Idea for reflection – 25
When you improve a little bit each day, eventually big things occur. Don’t look for big, quick improvement. Instead, seek small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens–and when it happens, it lasts.
– John Wooden
– John Wooden
Idea for reflection – 24
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
– Jacob Bronowski, from The Ascent of Man
– Jacob Bronowski, from The Ascent of Man
Working Together
WORKING TOGETHER
We shape our self
to fit this world
and by the world
are shaped again.
The visible
and the invisible
working together
in common cause,
to produce
the miraculous.
I am thinking of the way
the intangible air
passed at speed
round a shaped wing
easily
holds our weight.
So may we, in this life
trust
to those elements
we have yet to see
or imagine,
and look for the true
shape of our own self
by forming it well
to the great
intangibles about us.
– David Whyte,
from River Flow
(Written for the presentation of The Collier Trophy to The Boeing Company marking the introduction of the new 777 passenger jet.)
Idea for reflection – 22
Skyscape XIII
Do not depend on the hope of results … you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself … gradually you struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people …. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything.
– Thomas Merton, from The Letters of Thomas Merton
Sep 30
Idea for reflection – 21
The world is full of answers. If you ask a simple question, you can get a million of them, no problem. In fact, think of how many conclusions we reach each day: think about all of our likes and dislikes, our views about the world, who we think we are, and who we decide we want to be. But have we ever been able to reach a point of absolute certainty about anything?
– Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, The Power of an Open Question
Sep 18
Idea for reflection – 20
Shuttlecock V
Life is about
not knowing,
having to change,
taking the moment
and making the best of it
without knowing
what’s going to happen next.
– Gilda Radner
Friesen Group 