Brainy Thoughts

“Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow;
decision, to the releasing of a trigger.”

Sun Tzu – The Art of War (read book online here)

“Charge the odds, but sacrifice demands.”

Lyrics from ‘Red Gum’ (an Australian Band)

“Identify the lazy people, interview and listen to them, for they are the ones who are motivated to make life easier for themselves, and are motivated to make things simpler.”

“Simplicity means focussed effort.”

Paraphrased Edward de Bono

“Advantages are taken not handed out.”

Metallica

“Complexity means distracted effort.
Simplicity means focussed effort.”

“Complexity always means failed simplicity.”

Edward de Bono

“The major use in thinking is not problem solving but in improving what we are doing and finding new ways to do things (value creation).”

Edward de Bono

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.”

Thomas J. Watson

“As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest.”

Charles Joseph

“Stress is the degree to which we feel we are not in control of our lives.”

“When a person is always right, there has to be something wrong.”

ANONYMOUS

“To discard the hard-won information on how to live accumulated by our ancestors, or to expect to discover a viable set of goals all by oneself, is misguided hubris.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“If things go really badly, I take the blame.
If they go somewhat badly, we are both to blame.
If things go really well, it’s because of you.”

BEAR BRYANT, legendary football coach

“Be cautious and bold”

Rothschilds Maxim (or Rothchilds Paradox!!??)

Or. “Tread softly but carry a big stick” 🙂

Or. “Peace through superior firepower” 🙂

“If you know the enemy and know yourself,
you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy,
for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself,
you will succumb in every battle.”

Sun Tzu – The Art of War

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”

Shakespeare.

“In life there are no RIGHT answers, only lines in the sand.”

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“The inordinate love of money, no doubt, may be and often is “the root of all evil,” but money itself, when properly used, is not only a “handy thing to have in the house,” but affords the gratification of blessing our race by enabling its possessor to enlarge the scope of human happiness and human influence.”

P T Barnum

“Life is too short to have a career.”

Anon

“To serve others is nice.
To develop your skills and serve others skilfully is good.
But greatness is serving others wholly with all your skills in an attitude of kindness never seeking gratitude.”

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