“I believe people are smart and some people want to share more data than other people do.
Ask them. Ask them every time. Make them tell you to stop asking them if they get tired of your asking them.
Let them know precisely what you’re going to do with their data.”
Steve Jobs 2010
The Monday Morning Quote #698
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
Seneca.
(Like these raw stones, we need a little friction to become our best. Don’t look at the trials before you as obstacles, consider them as a training ground, and improve.)
The Monday Morning Quote #697
From the Letters Page of the FT.com/Weekend Magazine, April 30th/May 1st 2022. The one sentence comment on the article in the previous magazine, “The evolution of Marine Le Pen” says a great deal and sums up a much of what is happening.
“The willingness of people to believe that someone or something will make their lives better without the need for evidence is extraordinary.”
“Mundell”
The Monday Morning Quote #696
“Art belongs to everybody and to nobody. Art belongs to all time and to no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savour it. Art no more belongs to the People and the Party than it once belonged to the aristocracy and the patron. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake.”
Julian Barnes in his novel, “The Noise of Time” via the FT 23rd April 2022, thanks to Mark Eisinger.
The Monday Morning Quote #695
Two quotes this week, from a piece in the Weekend Financial Times’ Fashion Supplement from the 9th/10th April 2022 in an article titled “Sage and the Scholar” featuring Paul Smith and Priya Ahluwalia.
“The industry has changed enormously and it’s a much more crowded and competitive place. To anyone starting out (as a creative) today, “Be brave enough to ask yourself why should anyone buy what I’m doing, what is my point of view and if you can start answering that even in a very small way then you will be on your way.”
Paul Smith
“I have taken Paul’s advice to, ‘Keep your feet on the ground and never think you have made it.’ “I don’t want to become a moment….then fall off.”
Priya Ahluwali
The Monday Morning Quote #694
“Conscience is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one’s course by it, one must still try to follow its direction.“
Vincent van Gogh
The Monday Morning Quote #693
The Monday Morning Quote #692
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.
It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
from Words of the Year
The Monday Morning Quote #691
Three for the price of one from a great of both rugby codes, Sean Edwards, who helped France to a Grand Slam this weekend.
I need to keep honing my skills as a coach otherwise I’ll go off the boil.
Believe it or not we actually practice putting the ball down properly. It is a bugbear of mine…
The sign of a great (player) is that players around him become better. Lawrence has that and it’s a rare commodity…..Others may be more physically talented … but … can’t match the competitive edge. It means so much to them they go through pain to get there.
Sean Edwards
The Monday Morning Quote #690
“The attain knowledge, add things every day.”
“To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
Lao Tse – Tao Te Ching – Chapter 48
The Incisal Edge 