“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you’d been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you’re suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.“ Ann Patchett Via wordsmith.org
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The Monday Morning Quote #679
“Always take as long as the job tells you, because it’ll be there when you’re not; and you don’t want folk saying ‘What fool made that codge?’“ Alan Garner, Author. Quoted in FT (Dec 18/19 2021)
The Monday Morning Quote #678
“There’s a set of rules that anything that was in the world when you were born is normal and natural. Anything invented between when you were 15 and 35 is new and revolutionary and exciting, and you’ll probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of things.” Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #678”
The Monday Morning Quote #677
“You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.” Professor Richard Feynman
The Monday Morning Quote #676
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….
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 #662
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ― William James
The Monday Morning Quote #661
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their times, lackContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #661”
The Incisal Edge 