Sick ego
January 30, 2010
“It’s a strange combination of sick ego and naïveté that allows somebody to think they can make it. Any actor who’s working is lucky.”
- Ron Livingston: actor; Sex and the City, Office Space
“Who really decides who is unchurched?” JMD
Success
January 28, 2010
| “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” - Margaret Thatcher |
Perseverance
January 27, 2010
- H. Jackson Brown
Ability
January 25, 2010
- Lou Holtz
No mistakes
January 24, 2010
| “In order to win, you must expect to win.”
- Richard Bach |
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| “There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.” - Richard Bach |
Reporters
January 23, 2010
“It’s been said being a journalist puts you in a front row seat to some of life’s biggest events.”
When I interviewed Walter Cronkite in 2000, he said Entertainment took first place to News a long time ago.
“We have entertainers and we have observers, then we have T.V. reporters who get to do both.” JMD
A few voices
January 21, 2010
“Seek not the favor of the multitude. It is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few, and number not the voices, but weigh them.”
- Kant, as quoted by Viggo Mortenson: The Lord of the Rings, A Walk on the Moon, 28 Days; from Vanity
Disaster
January 20, 2010
“Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it’s uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing — resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.”
- Joanna Macy
“The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.”
- Ernst Fischer, Austrian editor, poet, critic (1899-1972)
Talent
January 19, 2010
“There’s a common misconception that a person’s skill is their talent. Skills, however, are not talents. Talents, on the other hand, require skills. People can have skills and knowledge in areas where their talents do not lie. If they have a job that requires their skills but not their talents, organizations will never tap into their passion or voice. They’ll go through the motions, but this will only make them appear to need external supervision and motivation.”
- Unknown
MLK quotes
January 18, 2010
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
