—-but not until Tuesday due to the events of the weekend. The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world is that in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell) Education is that process by which we move from cocksure certainty to thoughtful uncertainty. (Unknown)
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The Monday Morning Quote #10
On Thursday evening I listened to my friend Brian Mormon talking about the trip he made along Route 66 with his brother last year. They were riding hired Harley Davidson ‘Fatboys’ and obviously had a great road trip. They raised £17,000 for The National Star Centre which is a charity based in Gloucestershire. Route 66Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #10”
The Monday Morning Quote #9
“When you’re going through hell, keep going!” Winston Churchill
The Monday Morning Quote #8
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to makeContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #8”
The Monday Morning Quote #7
“Don’t do it unless it’s fun. Make it fun. (Always possible, for me.) Make it fun for others. (Which makes it fun / more fun for you.)” Tom Peters
The Monday Morning Quote #6
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.” J.C.Watts
The Monday Morning Quote #5
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” – Henry Ford
The Monday Morning Quote #4
Two quotes from winners of the Nobel prize for Literature. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” (Samuel Beckett) “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm..” (Sir Winston Churchill)
The Monday Morning Quote #3
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. He who strives valiantly;Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #3”
The Monday Morning Quote #2
As a very wise patient once said to me: “If you tell me about something before you start it’s an explanation, if you tell me about it after it has happened it’s an excuse.”
The Incisal Edge 