Thoughts and musing gathered along the way.
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The 3Principles
Ama Sua, Ama Llulla, Ama Kella
Do not lie, Do not steal, Work hard |
Perseverance
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Worry not about what you have tried and failed, but what is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
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Chippin’ away at that mountain
Success when spiced with adversity tastes the sweetest. |
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Everything that can be invented already has been.
- statement released by the US Patent Office in 1899
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The Journey
As you navigate the ocean of existence, use emotion as your sail and reason as your rudder. |
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in the home.
- Kenneth Olsen, founder Digital Equipment Corporation 1977
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The secret of life
The secret of life is learning to enjoy the passage of time.
- James Taylor |
Learning from our mistakes
If you step in it often enough sooner or later you'll learn what it looks like.
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Freeing yourself from informational bondage
Life is very fast, and somewhere between working 60+ hours-a -week, holding down the home-front, driving through, picking up and dropping off, we gave up our willingness to think and let the news media do it for us. Remember these things: Information is not news. The key to any story is “why,” and everything you see in the news, you are meant to see. Recognizing these is taking a step towards freedom of thought.
- from a course lecture at Spring Arbor University
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Indecency vs. Freedom of Speech in the mass media
This issue is not so much about freedom of speech as it is about a lost sense of stewardship in mass media. Once the on-air threshold is crossed, that “freedom” becomes a “responsibility.”
- from a lecture at College Misericordia
Balanced Being
Balance is comprised of both darkness and light, Yin, and Yang, positive, and negative. If you lead a “Balanced life,” then you must anticipate and prepare for both.
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The facts of life
Some days you’re the windshield. Some days you’re the bug.
- J. R. Ewing |
Working for a living
If you don’t love what you’re doing, do something else. Life is too short to be spent in pursuits the only reward of which is money.
- thanks Dad!
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Business
Business has only two functions: Marketing and innovation. These make money. Everything else is a cost center.
- Peter Drucker |
The Bottom Line
We must each be the change we wish to see in the world.
- Gandhi |