Good Judgment Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man. (William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania) Education is an integral part of a healthy society. Modern technology has made the obtaining of knowledge much easier since information is...
Bloom When you’re in a dark place, you sometimes tend to think you’ve been buried; perhaps you’ve been planted: bloom. (Gabriela Eric) Sometimes life is so difficult that it may seem that we’ve been buried under unrelenting circumstances. Whether it’s personal,...
Veterans Day The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Mahatma Gandhi, leader of India’s independence movement) Today in America we honor the veterans who served in the military to protect our country and our freedom. Many of those...
Success (or Disappointment) The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. (Deborah Moggach, British writer) Moggach offers two really important ideas. Some people don’t want to try something new because...
Relief When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That’s about all you can do. (Leonard Cohen, Canadian novelist and poet) Is Cohen’s advice really helpful? Are we to deal with our concerns by ignoring them and masking...
Perspective A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century poet) This oft-quoted axiom has been argued by many thinkers. It is true that if you hold to an erroneous view, continuing to support it makes you look foolish, if...
Confession Here’s what’s cool: Admitting you were wrong. (Warren Buffett, wealthy philanthropist) This is no. 6 in Buffett’s list of cool things. It may be cool, but we don’t see a lot of it. This is because it’s so hard to do. Do you remember a TV situation comedy a...
More than Facts Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. (Ivan Pavlov, 19th & 20th century Russian physiologist) “Just give me the facts” was a frequent line in an old detective TV show. That would be important in...
Work Your Dream If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 20th century French writer) Sounds like...
Serving & Leading If serving is below you, leadership is beyond you. (Anonymous, quoted by Jed Record, marketing specialist) Societal values are changing. A good work ethic was very American for most of our country’s history. But now, a lot of people seem to think...
Character Talent without character is like a kite without a string... worthless! (Jamy Bechler, leadership trainer) Do you remember how frustrating it was when you lost your grip on your kite string? Or when you gave the baby a balloon and he or she almost immediately...
Human Nature You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. (William Lyon Phelps, 19th-20th century scholar, author, critic) With its broad spectrum of ethnic origins, levels of education, and social differences, you might think...