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Apply To People You Know

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Ideas, Never Give Up, Optimism, Persistence, Philosophy, Quotes, Sports, Ted Lasso on December 23, 2023| 2 Comments »

Isn’t the idea of ‘never give up’ one of them things we always talk about in sports? And shouldn’t that apply to people too?

— Ted Lasso

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Thoughts About Climate Change, Peace In the Middle-East And Gun Control In America

Posted in Environment, General Comments, Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Adrienne Zihlman, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Schopenhauer, Global Climate Change, Gun Control In America, Ideas, Leadership, New Scientific Hypothesis, Peace In The Middle-East, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Truth on November 10, 2023| 2 Comments »

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1) It’s completely impossible. 2) It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I said it was a good idea all along.

— Arthur C. Clark

It has been said that the reception of any successful new scientific hypothesis goes through three predictable phases before being accepted.
First, it is criticized for being untrue.
Secondly, after supporting evidence accumulates, it is stated that it may be true, but it is not particularly relevant.
Thirdly, after it has clearly influenced the field, it is admitted to be true and relevant, but the same critics assert that the idea was not original.

— Adrienne Zihlman

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

[We are stuck between “One” and “Two”, so we may never get to “Three”… It strikes me that we simply lack the moral fiber to recognize the truth and the political leadership to address the issues. — kmab]

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Start Transmission

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Accomplishments, Enthusiasm, Ideas, Philosophy, Quotes, Results, Thomas J. Watson on October 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

— Thomas J. Watson

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On Actionable Opportunities

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Dry Spells, Ideas, Opportunities, Philosophy, Quotes, Warren Buffett on September 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

— Warren Buffett

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An Equally Urgent Conclusion

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Camus, Death, Ideas, Illusions, Philosophy, Quotes, The Meaning Of Life on September 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

— Albert Camus

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Get Bigger

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Actions, Arnold H. Glasow, Brain Cells, Ideas, Philosophy, Quotes on June 15, 2023| 2 Comments »

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

— Arnold H. Glasow

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Inviting Dispute

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged American Politics, Disputes, Dissatisfaction, Free Speech, Ideas, Philosophy, Preconceptions, Prejudices, Quotes, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Terminiello v. Chicago 337 U.S. 1, Unrest on February 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »

A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.

— William O. Douglas
From: Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1

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An Exquisite Balance

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Balance, Carl Sagan, Gullible, Hypotheses, Ideas, Philosophy, Quotes, Skepticism on January 11, 2023| Leave a Comment »

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas … If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you … On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.

— Carl Sagan

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Why I Always Favor A Free Marketplace Of Ideas

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged A Free Market, Flowers, Ideas, Parents, Philosophy, Plants, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Replacements, Seeds, Trees, Vegetable Life on December 2, 2022| Leave a Comment »

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I’ve Lost My Share

Posted in Quotes, Writing, tagged Ideas, Lynn Abbey, Magic, Quotes, Writing on April 2, 2022| 2 Comments »

Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

— Lynn Abbey

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17 Days Until The Next Government Shutdown

Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #DumbDonald, #IncompetentTrump, Apples, Compromise, George Bernard Shaw, Government Shutdown, Ideas, Philosophy, Political Leadership, Politics, Quotes on January 30, 2019| 3 Comments »

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

― George Bernard Shaw

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Merry Christmas — 2018

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Christmas Carol, Bob Hope, Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, https://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/, Ideas, Love, Other Blogs, Quotes on December 25, 2018| 4 Comments »



My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.

— Bob Hope

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

— Charles Dickens

[Merry Christmas to all… !!

The image above was “borrowed” from one of the comments I’ve rec’d from a fellow blogger. Please visit his site if you have a few minutes: http://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/ — kmab]

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No Reason To Turn

Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Ideas, Leadership, Philosophy, Public Life, Quotes, Saint Thomas More, Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Vices on December 7, 2018| Leave a Comment »

If you can’t completely eradicate wrong ideas, or deal with inveterate vices as effectively as you wish, that’s no reason for turning your back on public life altogether. You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.

— Sir (also Saint) Thomas More
From his book: “Utopia“

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And Blog Posts, Too

Posted in Quotes, Writing, tagged Books, Ideas, Michael Cunningham, Paper, Quotes, Writing on June 17, 2018| 2 Comments »

One always has a better book in one’s mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

–– Michael Cunningham

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Not Sure Anyway…

Posted in Quotes, Writing, tagged Ideas, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Quotes, Stephen King, Writing on June 16, 2018| 1 Comment »

We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas; we know we don’t know.

— Stephen King
From his book: “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft“

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