Thoughts for the day.
Leaders digest
“The noblest dog is the hot dog. It feeds the hand that bites it.”
“The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridges to cross and which to burn.”
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.”
Laurence J Peter
“Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion”
Milton Hyland Erickson, MD (1901 – 1980) American psychiatrist and founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis
Milton Hyland Erickson was also a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychopathological Association. He is noted for his often unconventional approach to psychotherapy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson
“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”
Dr Laurence J. Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990)
Laurence J. Peter was an educator and “hierarchiologist”, best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle, which states which states: “In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”.
“When the winds of change come, some people build walls, others build windmills.”
Author: Brian Mayne
“Sometimes it’s very difficult to keep momentum when it’s you that you are following.”
Eva María Duarte de Perón (also known as Evita) (May 7, 1919, July 26, 1952)
Eva Perón was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (18951974) and the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Though she was never an officially elected political figure, most scholars agree that by her husband’s second term in office she had come to exercise more power and influence within the government than anyone but her own husband.
Analysis paralysis is when the opportunity cost of decision analysis exceeds the benefits.
“Celebrate any progress. Don’t wait to get perfect.”
Ann McGee Cooper
“Grant me the strength to focus on the most important things, the clarity of thought to determine which things are important, and the energy to carry them out.”
Author: Brainy Thoughts, 2006