Posted on May 1, 2019 by Alun Rees
How shall I a habit break?
As you did that habit make.
As you gathered, you must lose;
As you yielded, now refuse.
Thread by thread the strands we twist
Till they bind us, neck and wrist.
Thread by thread the patient hand
Must untwine, ere free we stand.
As we builded, stone by stone,
We must toil, unhelped, alone,
Till the wall is overthrown.
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Posted on February 18, 2019 by Alun Rees
“Better is the enemy of”Good Enough”
Voltaire
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Posted on January 28, 2019 by Alun Rees
“Plan for what is difficult while it is easy.
Do what is great while it is small.”
Sun Tzu
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Posted on November 29, 2018 by Alun Rees
“I thought all my life that progress was linear. Now it’s very clear at best it’s cyclical and it’s very hard to tell we are at the bottom of the wave or are we going to have an upswing.”
Louise Arbor (chief prosecutor of the Rwandan & Yugoslav war crimes tribunals) speaking to Alec Russell in the FT 24/25 November 2018
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Posted on August 20, 2018 by Alun Rees
“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time;
serenity is the feeling that nothing is.”
Thomas Szasz
via John Naughton
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Posted on March 1, 2018 by Alun Rees
We had shown resilience and proven that so much in performance is about belonging and purpose.
Like I said, it was a surreal weekend; in a city driven by opulence and materialism there were a bunch of boys from the Fijian villages, some who had no family homes to go back to, happier than any of those high-rollers on the Strip.
Ben Ryan on Las Vegas and the Fijian 7s
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Posted on January 22, 2018 by Alun Rees
“The essential principal of business—of occupation in the world—is this: figure out some way in which you get paid for playing.”
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