Brainy Thoughts

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Corollary:

“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”

“If you know but do not do, then in fact you do not know.”

Author: Unknown

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

Buddha

“Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.”

Author: Ashley Brilliant

“A drunk mans’ words are a sober mans’ thoughts.”

“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”

“There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

Author: John F. Kennedy – Thirty-fifth President of the USA.

The Cuban Missile Crisis.
The,Cold War’ between the United States and the Soviet Union almost turned into a real war in October 1962 when an American spy plane secretly flew over Cuba and took pictures of military construction sites. President Kennedy saw from these pictures that the Russians were building nuclear missile launchers in Cuba, only 90 miles from Florida. President Kennedy faced a very difficult decision. Should he ignore the missiles even though they were very close to the United States? Should he use force to remove the missiles, even at the risk of starting a nuclear war?

“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. “

George Bernard Shaw

“Be interested.”

Everyone wants to be interesting – but the vitalizing thing is to be interested. Keep a sense of curiosity. Discover new things. Care. Risk failure. Reach out.

Author: John W. Gardener

“Let life not become a comb that nature gives us after we have lost our hair.”

Author: Unknown

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. “

George Bernard Shaw

“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.”

Author: David Allen

“It is the act of forgiveness that opens up the only way to think creatively about the future at all.”

Desmond Wilson

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are like. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, they make them.”

Author: George Bernard Shaw (1856, 1950), Irish playwright. Best known for Pygmalion (1913). Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925

“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”

Author: Ashley Brilliant

“Your identity is what you’ve committed yourself to.”

Author: John W. Gardner

“The barnacle is confronted with an existential decision about where it’s going to live. Once it decides, it spends the rest of its life with its head cemented to a rock.”

Original Author Unknown.

“The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in the world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.”

Author: Frederick the Great