Brainy Thoughts

“Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.”

Søren Kierkegaard

“No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.”

Napoleon Hill

“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.”

Annon

“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ”

John Kenneth Galbraith 1908 –
American Economist

MW Thoughts;
Most people would rather justify their current position, than accept a new position.

‘Position’ may mean; idea, way-of-life, way-of-doing-something, job…

But;
“Just because you’ve been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn’t mean you’ve been doing it right.”

So;
“Whenever we explain a reason for doing/not-doing something, listen to ourselves to see if we are really just making excuses.”

“I don’t have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.”

Todays TFTD;
“He who hesitates is probably smart… or maybe stapled to the floor.”

Dr. Squid

“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.”

Stephen Covey
from his book; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or
a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Take the punishment of defeat as an urge to greater effort”

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Take the punishment of defeat as an urge to greater effort”

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.”

Author: Annon

“Management is doing things right,
Leadership is doing the right things.”

Warren Bennis & Peter Drucker.

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success,
Leadership determines if the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

See the important difference;
Imagine a group of producers cutting their way through the jungle with machetes.
They’re the producers, the problem solvers. They’re cutting through the undergrowth clearing it out.
The managers are behind them, sharpening their machetes, writing policy and procedure manuals,
holding muscle development programs, bringing in improved technologies
and setting up working schedules and compensation plans for machete wielders.

The leader is the one who climbs up the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells “Wrong Jungle!”

But how do the busy efficient producers and managers often respond? “Shut up! We’re making progress.”

Effectiveness, often even survival, does not depend solely on how much effort we expend,
but whether or not the effort we expend is in the right jungle.

– except & paraphrased from Stephen Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”

Yogi Berra

“If you can teach someone some stuff, you can learn it even gooder for yourself.”
BrainyThoughts.com 2005

Anti-corollary;

“Those who can do, do. Those who cant, teach.”

Author: Unknown

Therefore;

“Beware anyone who tells you how to do stuff when they don’t/can’t do stuff themselves.
Become a good teacher by doing lots of good stuff.”

BrainyThoughts.com 2005

“Ooo, arr, eee arrr, Harvest y’ur crops while thee sun is shining!” 😉

A wise old Irish Philosopher, 2003

“If you learn some stuff, you can learn even more more stuff”
BrainyThoughts.com 2005

I think Nietzsche liked my quote, so he paraphrased it; 🙂

“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“There’s nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

Peter F. Drucker

“The more you wrestle with a turd, the more sh%t gets on you.”

Shelly Horton

“As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal:
keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!”

Murray Banks

“All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.”

Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts

“If you stay in the employ of a company for more than 6months,
it generally shows you have melded and adopted their values as your own – BEWARE!”

BrainyThoughts.com 2005

“Continued employment often becomes the art of not seeing the tree’s for the forest.
Change, see trees!”

BrainyThoughts.com 2005 – Contractors Axiom

“You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.”

Wallace Arnold