The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. –Madeleine L’Engle, writer (1918-2007) This will come to great relief to my wife – I hope….
Author Archives: Alun Rees
Price yourself like Apple?
The way successful businesses price products and services always interests me, this is from the Wall Street Journal via Charles Arthur’s Overspill Why $19 is Apple’s favourite price for accessories • WSJ Analysts say $19 is also a sweet spot for well-to-do consumers willing to pay extra for basic tech products and services. “When youContinue reading “Price yourself like Apple?”
…and politicians wonder why the professions don’t rate them…
or “The Moral of the Roller-Skating Christmas Pudding” From David Allen Green’s “The Law and Policy” blog. According to a National Audit Office report, the Crown court backlog increased by 23% in the year leading up to the pandemic, increasing from 33,290 on 31 March 2019 to 41,045 on 31 March 2020. “The backlog increasedContinue reading “…and politicians wonder why the professions don’t rate them…”
The Monday Morning Quote #675
“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.” Sir Charles Spencer (Charlie) Chaplin Jr. KB
The Monday Morning Quote #674
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” Charles Bukowski
The Monday Morning Quote #673
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.“ B.B.King I saw him on one of his farewell tours at the NEC Birmingham in April 2006, a great night with a legend and fine showman; but not quite as intimate as this gig.
The Monday Morning Quote #672
“Until one is committed…” not by Goethe but W.H. Murray “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #672”
The Monday Morning Quote #671
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life…” C.S.Lewis
Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot
When you think you’re significant take a few minutes to watch & listen… “Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”
The Monday Morning Quote #670
“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.” Martin Luther King Jr
The Incisal Edge 