Is it worth trying?
February 12, 2010
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
- Allard Lowenstein
I ask questions to which I have no right to expect answers and I ask to see things I am not entitled to see.
- Unknown
Twig
February 10, 2010
“Hear me! A single twig breaks, but a bundle of twigs is strong!”
- Tecumseh, Shawnee, 1795
One of the greatest secrets to living a successful life is to never do it alone. Reach out, call someone and tell them everything. JMD
Action
February 8, 2010
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
-Conrad Hilton
Values
February 7, 2010
“When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.”
-Roy Disney
Feeling disaster
February 6, 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
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
- James Baldwin
“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)
Words
February 2, 2010
“One of the hardest things in life
is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.”
- James Earl Jones
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
Perseverance
January 27, 2010
- H. Jackson Brown
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
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)
