Assumptions

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. -Alan Alda, actor and director (b. 1936)

Travel

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”  ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

Compassion

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. -Voltaire

Thought & Opinion

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy

Truth

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error; it is another to make him see the truth. ~ John Locke

Direction

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ~ Lao Tzu

on Twitter

Collectively, the people I follow on Twitter — book nerds, science nerds, journalists, the uncategorizably interesting — come pretty close to my dream community. They also function as by far the best news source I’ve ever used: more panoptic, more in-depth, more likely to teach me something, much more timely, cumulatively more self-correcting and sophisticated. ~ Kathryn Schulz, Author

Beauty

Sometimes people are beautiful, not in looks, not in what they say, just in what they are. ~Markus Zusak, Australian author

Reform

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world. -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

Freedom

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -Abraham Lincoln

Dreamers

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. -Marie Curie, scientist, Nobel laureate (1867-1934)

Reputation

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. -Margaret Mitchell, novelist (1900-1949)

Action

Things may come to those who wait,  but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Abraham Lincoln

Revitalising

You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.  ~ Louise Smith

Just start

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. ~Zig Ziglar

Eyes are the window to the world

"When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another,  a practiced man relies on the language of the first."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action vs Intention

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions ~ Anon

Success Habits

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. - Thomas Edison

Dreams and limits

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. ~Michael Phelps, Olympian swimmer

Goals

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. -Confucius

Effort

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. -Michelangelo

Ease

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

Jonas Salk on Patents

Journalist Ed Murrow: "Who owns the patent on this vaccine?" Jonas Salk: "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" -Jonas Salk, medical researcher and developer of polio vaccine (1914-1995)

Understanding

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)

Forgiveness

Forgiveness will never fail to free you. - Jerrold Mundis