These Days Rather Loosely Held

“Without facts, you can’t have truth.  Without truth, you can’t have trust,”  [Maria] Ressa told editor at large Karl Vick hours after she was awarded the [Nobel Peace] prize.  “This is the fabric that hold us together:  shared reality.”
—    Edward Felsenthal
From his article:  “Shining The Light“
Appearing in:  Time Magazine;  dtd:  25 Oct / 1 Nov 2021
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But Verify

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
—     Ernest Hemingway
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2009	As for me…
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The Main Thing: Vote!

No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless.  There’s too much to do.
—   Dorothy Day
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2017	More Pictures From My (Family) Retirement Party
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2016	Are You Waiting?
2015	The Future Myth
2014	Hands
2013	Because You Have Lived
2012	47%
2011	Conservative Values: Low And Lax
2010	A Non-Zero Sum Game
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2009	Pictures from UCLA trip…

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In Business And In Politics

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy.  The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
—   Thomas J. Watson
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2013	Eye Catching
2012	The Holstee Manifesto
2011	Three Crooners For The Shower
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A Steep Price Ahead

If you don’t figure out how to make things work from a broader societal perspective, you will pay a steep price for many years.
—    Brad Smith
President, Microsoft Corp.
As quoted by:  Romesh Ratnesar
In his article:  “Trust“
Appearing in:  Time Magazine,  dtd:  16 September 2019
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A Simple Fact

It’s a simple fact that technology has been weaponized by private companies against democracy.  Corporations are not people.  They don’t have souls.  They’re institutions designed to make money.  And the way the government has always dealt with them is to regulate them to the point where they cease being dangerous to the public.
—    Barry C. Lynn
Executive Director
Open Markets Institute
As quoted by:  Romesh Ratnesar
In his article:  “Trust“
Appearing in:  Time Magazine,  dtd:  16 September 2019
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Why #45 Is Fated To Endanger Our National Security

Whoever is careless with truth in small matters, cannot be trusted in important affairs.
—    Albert Einstein
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A Big “IF”

Our shared values define us more than our differences.  And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.
—    Senator John McCain
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On This Day In:
2018	Committed To Thinking
2017	More Pictures From My (Family) Retirement Party
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2016	Are You Waiting?
2015	The Future Myth
2014	Hands
2013	Because You Have Lived
2012	47%
2011	Conservative Values: Low And Lax
2010	A Non-Zero Sum Game
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2009	Pictures from UCLA trip…

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The Courage Of Four Skills

“Courage is a prerequisite for all leadership,” she [Brené Brown] says.  And it can be taught.  It’s made up of four skills:  being vulnerable is the most important, followed by sticking to values, trusting others and persistence.  There can be no courage without vulnerability and no vulnerability without the risk of failure.  “One of the things that we learned in the research,” she says, “is that people who have the skills to get back up from a fall will engage in smarter risks and more courageous behaviors than people who don’t.”
—    Brené Brown
As quoted by:  Belinda Luscombe
In the article:  “America’s reigning expert on feelings, Brené Brown now takes on leadership“
Appearing in:  “Time Magazine“,  dtd:  12 November 2018
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I Trust Cows

I prefer butter to margarine, because I trust cows more than I trust chemists.
—    Joan Dye Gussow
[Happy Birthday, Sis!  This quote made me think of you.  LOL!!    —    Love, Kevin]
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2011	Start Here…
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Me, Too

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle.  I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.
—    Mother Teresa
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A Severe Challenge — When The President Is A Liar

Trust is a transaction between leaders and those they lead.  Throughout our history, the deeply held beliefs of various Presidents have taken the nation into war, delayed the pursuit of peace, alienated allies, appeased enemies.  At other times, presidential beliefs have conquered the continent, freed the slaves, taken us to the moon because the President firmly believed we could get there.  As citizens, it is vital that we be able to believe our President;  it is also vital that we know what he believes, and why.  This President has made both a severe challenge.
—    Nancy Gibbs
From her editorial: “When a President Can’t Be Taken at His Word“
Appearing in:  Time Magazine,  April 3, 2017
The specific web link is:  http://time.com/4710615/donald-trump-truth-falsehoods/
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Try It… You’ll Like It

I recall the senior partner of a law firm stressing to younger men and women in his firm the importance of client trust.  One ambitious young lawyer asked how one went about winning trust, and the senior partner said dryly, “Try being trustworthy.”
—    John W. Gardner
From his book:  “On Leadership“
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Standing Thoughts

Never trust any thought you have while sitting down.
—    Friedrich Nietzsche
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