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Thought For the Day: Don’t Overthink; Take Risks
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey
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Tagged Mistakes, Opportunity, Overthinking, Risk, Thought For the Day, Tina Fey, Worry
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Daily Prompt – Hero
When I was much, much younger I felt a certain kind of empty hunger Wishing that I would not become a zero Instead I strove to become a hero Picking out who I wanted very much to be I modeled … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The World Is Changed By Dreamers Willing To Look Foolish If Need Be
“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.” – P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)
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Tagged Change, Dreamers, Foolish, P.D. James, Prepared, Risk, Self Regarding, Thought For the Day, World
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Once In A Life
The luck of the draw I suppose? ….. Once In A Life by Michael Romani Here on the banks of once upon I gazed on you and you were gone My lifesong Savage rumors shared together Truest meaning; worse or … Continue reading
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Tagged Better or Worse, Crushing, Fairytale, Gamble, Illusions, Lifeline, Lifelong, Lifesong, Lifetime, Once, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Risk
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Thought For the Day: Risk Going Too Far
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Elliot, in the Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
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Tagged Attain, Dare, Dream, Reach, Risk, Strive, T.S. Eliot, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Experts On the Public Good Are Often Wrong and Sometimes Dangerous
“The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.” —Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) … Continue reading
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Tagged Administrators, Bureaucrats, Danger, Experience, Friedrich Hayek, Liberty, Modern Government, Public Good, Risk, Understanding
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WordPress #Daily Prompt – July 15 – Moxie
56 men stepped forward and signed their names to the Declaration of Independence. Having heard that perhaps King George III lacked vision, John Hancock signed his name especially large. He had perhaps the most to lose. That took a lot … Continue reading
