Showing posts with label Chesterton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chesterton. Show all posts

Monday, May 7, 2012

Results, Strangers, Adventure

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
~ Thomas A. Edison

If you came and you found a strange man ... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.
~ Professor Jerome Singer, Yale University

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~ G.K. Chesterton

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Thinking, New Leader, Adventure

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
~ William James

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is
dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up
call.
~ Warren Bennis

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An
inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~ G.K. Chesterton

Monday, January 10, 2011

Good idea, Arguments, False Knowledge

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
~ Admiral Grace Hopper

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a good discussion.
~ G.K. Chesterton

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
~ George Bernard Shaw