“A very simple truth is that if we have more work than we are capable of processing then we won’t be able to do it all properly. Unfortunately, like most simple truths, this tends to escape many people.”
– Mark Forster, Do it Tomorrow
“By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant
“There cannot be a stressful crisis this week. My schedule is already full.”
– Henry Kissinger
“Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977
Sorry, all, for this second long lapse of quiet. A couple of unexpected family illnesses have, once again, thrown off my blogging – and life – schedule.
As the Dutch say, sickness comes on horseback, but departs on foot.
Back to it, I hope.
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.”
– Hugh Macleod
“Even in the knocks of life we can find great gifts”
– Bhagavad Gita
“Rabbi Simha Bunam of Pzysha once asked his disciples, “how can we tell when a sin we have committed has been pardoned?” His disciples gave various answers but none of them pleased the rabbi. “We can tell,” he said, “by the fact that we no longer commit that sin.”
– Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim
“It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. Now, sir, in the present case, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them, choose to lead off a dance, I am decidedly opposed to the people’s money being used to pay the fiddler…all this to settle a question in which the people have no interest, and about which they care nothing. These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.”
– Abraham Lincoln, 1837
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Kleiner’s First Law: When the hors d’oeuvres are passing, take two.
Kleiner’s Second Law: There is a time when panic is the appropriate response.
– Eugene Kleiner, Founder, Fairchild Semiconductor & Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.