Friday, November 07, 2014
Movies: a machine that generates empathy
Roger Ebert said movies are “like a machine that generates empathy.”
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
God can draw a straight line with a crooked stick
"God can strike a straight stroke by a crooked stick."
~ Thomas Watson, English Puritan
"God can draw a straight line with a crooked stick."
~ Martin Luther, German Reformer
"God uses crooked sticks to draw straight lines."
~ Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Jesuit Order
"God writes straight with crooked lines."
~ Spanish/Portuguese proverb
quotes researched by Virginia Huguenot, librarian
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
"Who is a hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend.”
“Who is a hero? He who turns his enemy into a
friend.”
~ The Talmud, Avot deRabbi Natan 23
~ The Talmud, Avot deRabbi Natan 23
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Spirituality
SPIRITUALITY
Spirituality is "the progressive unlearning of the strange ideas about God you've been taught..."
~ Rabbi Kaplan
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience;
we are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience."
~ Christian philosopher Teilhard de Chardin
"You were born to walk with God...
So why would you walk alone?"
~ Dr. Steve McSwain
Spirituality is "the progressive unlearning of the strange ideas about God you've been taught..."
~ Rabbi Kaplan
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience;
we are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience."
~ Christian philosopher Teilhard de Chardin
"You were born to walk with God...
So why would you walk alone?"
~ Dr. Steve McSwain
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Confront the Major Anxiety
"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Peculiar traits of rich people
Peculiar traits of rich people
Morgan Housel, The Motley Fool
They are (mostly pleasant) sociopaths
But sociopaths can disregard emotional events that cause normal people to worry and panic. ...
My lack of empathy means I don't get caught up in other people's panic. It gives me a unique perspective. And in the financial world, being able to think opposite the pack is all you need.
Napoleon's definition of a military genius was "The man who can do the average thing when all those around him are going crazy."
They care about time periods most can't comprehend
Long-term investing is the only sane choice. But it's unnatural. ...
"If you look carefully," Bill Bonner writes in his book Family Fortunes, "almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook."
They don't give a damn what you think of them
Dilbert creator Scott Adams once wrote: "One of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard goes something like this: If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power."
The price of being rich is really simple: You must live below your means. ...
A lot of them are after control over their time, which comes from having a wide gap between what they can afford to buy and what they actually buy.
Having the emotional backbone to drive an uglier car than you can afford, live in a smaller house you can afford, eat out less often than you can afford, and wear cheaper clothes than you can afford is rare. In my experience, less than 10% of people can do it in a meaningful way. It's the cost of being rich, and most people have no desire to pay the price.
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor," poet William Shenstone wrote. "An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich." I don't think it's any more complicated than that.
Morgan Housel, The Motley Fool
They are (mostly pleasant) sociopaths
But sociopaths can disregard emotional events that cause normal people to worry and panic. ...
My lack of empathy means I don't get caught up in other people's panic. It gives me a unique perspective. And in the financial world, being able to think opposite the pack is all you need.
Napoleon's definition of a military genius was "The man who can do the average thing when all those around him are going crazy."
They care about time periods most can't comprehend
Long-term investing is the only sane choice. But it's unnatural. ...
"If you look carefully," Bill Bonner writes in his book Family Fortunes, "almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook."
They don't give a damn what you think of them
Dilbert creator Scott Adams once wrote: "One of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard goes something like this: If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power."
The price of being rich is really simple: You must live below your means. ...
A lot of them are after control over their time, which comes from having a wide gap between what they can afford to buy and what they actually buy.
Having the emotional backbone to drive an uglier car than you can afford, live in a smaller house you can afford, eat out less often than you can afford, and wear cheaper clothes than you can afford is rare. In my experience, less than 10% of people can do it in a meaningful way. It's the cost of being rich, and most people have no desire to pay the price.
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor," poet William Shenstone wrote. "An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich." I don't think it's any more complicated than that.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
“My life got reduced down to the 2 most important things, and we're so fortunate, I'm so fortunate”
SURVIVOR STORY: Mom holds baby during WA landslide
http://fox44.com/news/survivor-story-mom-holds-baby-during-wa-landslide
SEATTLE (CNN) — We’re hearing for the first time from the mother who held onto her son as last month's landslide in Washington State wiped out her home and her whole community.
Ask Amanda Skorjanc how she's doing, it's one question she'll never take lightly.
“I thought I wasn't going to make it, so I'm feeling good,” Skorjanc told CNN affiliate KING-TV.
Good, despite crushing injuries. Her legs, in casts. Her arms in a sling. Her bloodshot eye. But they can only tell part of the story. On March 22nd, Amanda and Duke were home. Her partner, Ty, Duke's dad, had just left for the hardware store.
“And then I looked out our front door, it was like a movie, houses were exploding. And the next thing I see is our neighbor's chimney coming into the front door. And I turned and held Duke and I did not let him go,” Amanda said.
Duke and Amanda would literally ride out the slide. It would carry them 600 feet before the earth beneath them would finally stop moving. Baby Duke was still in her arms.
“He was dirty and a little blue and I thought I was losing him so I would give him little...rubs, and I would pat on his chest and I would say stay with me bud, and I would ask God to not take him in front of me,”
Amanda heard someone screaming, a passerby, is anybody out there, the voice called.
“I was just the right guy there at the right time,” Cody Wesson explained.
Cody was the first to hear Amanda and Duke.
“As soon as I heard that voice I knew that he was going to be OK,” she said.
Cody took Duke from her arms and rescuers took out a chain saw to free Amanda from the debris, including the couch and recliner she credits for cushioning their ride.
“I know that God was with us because as it was going I cried out to him, I said please save us,” Amanda said.
Baby Duke is now recovering at Seattle Children's Hospital. He is best medicine for his mom.
“He's my motivation. Every time I get an update on him, it motivates me even more, to do my physical therapy no matter how much it hurts,” Amanda said.
Surrounded by cards and letters from around the world, as much as this family has lost, they know they still have what matters most.
“My life got reduced down to the 2 most important things, and we're so fortunate, I'm so fortunate,” said Ty Suddarth, who is Amanda’s partner and Duke’s father.
“We will pay it forward for the rest of our life,” Amanda explained.
http://fox44.com/news/survivor-story-mom-holds-baby-during-wa-landslide
SEATTLE (CNN) — We’re hearing for the first time from the mother who held onto her son as last month's landslide in Washington State wiped out her home and her whole community.
Ask Amanda Skorjanc how she's doing, it's one question she'll never take lightly.
“I thought I wasn't going to make it, so I'm feeling good,” Skorjanc told CNN affiliate KING-TV.
Good, despite crushing injuries. Her legs, in casts. Her arms in a sling. Her bloodshot eye. But they can only tell part of the story. On March 22nd, Amanda and Duke were home. Her partner, Ty, Duke's dad, had just left for the hardware store.
“And then I looked out our front door, it was like a movie, houses were exploding. And the next thing I see is our neighbor's chimney coming into the front door. And I turned and held Duke and I did not let him go,” Amanda said.
Duke and Amanda would literally ride out the slide. It would carry them 600 feet before the earth beneath them would finally stop moving. Baby Duke was still in her arms.
“He was dirty and a little blue and I thought I was losing him so I would give him little...rubs, and I would pat on his chest and I would say stay with me bud, and I would ask God to not take him in front of me,”
Amanda heard someone screaming, a passerby, is anybody out there, the voice called.
“I was just the right guy there at the right time,” Cody Wesson explained.
Cody was the first to hear Amanda and Duke.
“As soon as I heard that voice I knew that he was going to be OK,” she said.
Cody took Duke from her arms and rescuers took out a chain saw to free Amanda from the debris, including the couch and recliner she credits for cushioning their ride.
“I know that God was with us because as it was going I cried out to him, I said please save us,” Amanda said.
Baby Duke is now recovering at Seattle Children's Hospital. He is best medicine for his mom.
“He's my motivation. Every time I get an update on him, it motivates me even more, to do my physical therapy no matter how much it hurts,” Amanda said.
Surrounded by cards and letters from around the world, as much as this family has lost, they know they still have what matters most.
“My life got reduced down to the 2 most important things, and we're so fortunate, I'm so fortunate,” said Ty Suddarth, who is Amanda’s partner and Duke’s father.
“We will pay it forward for the rest of our life,” Amanda explained.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Four things that make you stupid: sex, envy, a love of power, and wealth
"Just as L.B.J. observed that the two things that make politicians more stupid than anything else are sex and envy, W. [Bush] said that he was not surprised by how Putin evolved because the three things that can change someone are 'a love of power, wealth and sex.'"
http://mobile.nytimes.com/
http://mobile.nytimes.com/
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