Thoughts for the day.
A daily prod to see if you are alive.
“You’ve got to think about the big things when you’re doing the small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
Alvin Toffler (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity.
“Family are important, but climate has so much more to offer.”
Author: Unknown
“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.”
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17) was a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature.
“Life’s big fallacy is security. There is none, ever. And I love that. I love the lack of security, of not knowing where the next buck’s going to come from. I love the need for adaptability. My kids can do anything they like as long as they don’t become lazy. If they become hoods, let them be the hardest working hoods around, not the footsoldiers.”
Alan Duff (b. 1950). New Zealand novelist (famous for Once Were Warriors), newspaper columnist, and polemicist. born and raised in a State housing area in Rotorua, New Zealand.
The Books in Homes scheme, launched in 1995 by Duff with commercial sponsorship and government support, aims to alleviate poverty and illiteracy by providing low-cost books to underprivileged children, thus encouraging them to read. In its first year alone it put about 180,000 new books in the hands of about 38,000 children.
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949), American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.
“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand and I will move the entire earth.”
Archimedes (C. 287 – 212 B.C.), ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher
Archimedes is creditied to have discovered the principles of density and buoyancy, also known as Archimedes’ principle, while taking a bath. The story goes that he then took to the streets naked, being so elated with his discovery that he forgot to dress, crying “Eureka!” (“I have found it!”).
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
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Author: William Hutchinson Murray (18 March 1913 – 19 March 1996), from the The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951)