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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On This Day In: | |
2021 | You Decide |
A Dream And The Wind | |
2020 | Making Me |
2019 | Inside Your Head |
2018 | Lingering Curiosity |
2017 | Just Kidding |
2016 | The Danger Of Walls |
2015 | Protection |
2014 | Let It Go |
2013 | Don’t Know And Not Telling |
2012 | A Challenge For Progress |
2011 | Dependent Difficulty |
Posts Tagged ‘Ideas’
I’ve Lost My Share
Posted in Quotes, Writing, tagged Ideas, Lynn Abbey, Magic, Quotes, Writing on April 2, 2022| 2 Comments »
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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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Disciplined Models |
2017 | We Cannot Afford Enemies |
2016 | Love Is Just A State Of Mind |
2015 | Waiting? |
2014 | Big C, Little B (II) |
Where God Has Not | |
2013 | Chasing His Dragon |
Shaped And Molded | |
2012 | Believe In Yourself |
2011 | Cultural Equivalence |
Why Not? | |
Books About Books | |
The Basis For Adult Continuing Education | |
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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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Talking Knuth |
Seeing It Through | |
2016 | Hoping For The Best Come January |
2015 | Adaptive Security |
2014 | Wants |
2013 | Side Effects |
2012 | Just Trying To Earn A Living |
2011 | Productive Worry |
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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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Just Doin’ It |
2016 | Definitely Not Bell Shaped |
2015 | Dreadful Pity |
2014 | Worse Than Useless |
2013 | Personal Prisons |
2012 | So, Not Yet Then |
2011 | Real Love |
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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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Forms Of Conservation |
2016 | Oh, So Lacking |
2015 | e pluribus unum |
2014 | Nothing So Far Removed |
2013 | Positions |
2012 | Two Errors |
2011 | Long Live The King! |
New And Old
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Fear, Ideas, John Cage, Philosophy, Quotes on May 8, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones. | |
— John Cage | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Ever |
2016 | At The Center |
2015 | True Value In Life |
2014 | A Potential To Be Concerned |
2013 | Fine No More |
2012 | Have You Checked Your Height Lately? |
2011 | Are You Convinced? |
Opposites Attract
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ideas, My Journal, Quotes on May 4, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. | |
— F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Completely Unreasonable |
Starting To Be A Reacher | |
2015 | Avengers Assemble II |
But If I Had To Perish Twice… | |
2014 | Turning Pages |
2013 | We Are All Accountable |
2012 | American Sign Language |
2011 | Happy Disproof |
2010 | Book Review – Managing Your Government Career |
We Need To Continue Experimenting
Posted in Faith, Politics, Quotes, tagged A To-Do List For The Tech Industry, Ideas, ISIS, Jason Tanz, Politics, Quotes, Terrorist, The Internet, Wired Magazine, Yasmin Green on April 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »
This is a more fruitful approach than trying to erase dialog from the Internet altogether. We can all agree that material that incites violence doesn’t belong online. But when ISIS raises questions about the world, you can’t just wipe that from the Internet. Ideas need to be raised and confronted and disputed. Right now, it can feel dangerous to challenge extremism online. People get shouted down, harassed, or worse. That gives power to the bad guys, because it shuts reasonable people out of the conversation, leaving just the violent voices. | |
We haven’t seen a terrorist organization as digitally savvy as ISIS before, but when you think about it, much of what it’s doing isn’t all that different from what any teenager can do; you wouldn’t be surprised if your 14-year-old daughter made a video and put it online. It’s only surprising because we have this idea of terrorists as old, bearded men hiding out in the mountains. Terrorist groups are evolving like the rest of us. We need to continue experimenting with solutions that meet these groups where they connect with the rest of the world. | |
— Yasmin Green | |
Quoted by: Jason Tanz | |
In his article: “A To-Do List For The Tech Industry“ | |
Appearing in: Wired Magazine; dtd: November 2016 | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Consistently |
2015 | We Must Dissent |
2014 | Now What? |
2013 | Judgement |
2012 | Stuck In My Mind |
Life’s Hope | |
2011 | Just Getting Up |
Directions Please | |
Begin Combat
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Falsehoods, Ideas, Leadership, Philosophy, Quotes, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Truth on December 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. | |
— Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Just Dig ‘N It, Why? |
2013 | Additions |
The Object Of Instruction | |
2012 | Telling Her |
2011 | On Torture |