Quote of the occasional random period
29 JulChange has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. Obviously, then, one’s character and frame of mind determine how readily he brings about change and how he reacts to change that is imposed on him.
King Whitney Jr., President, Personnel Laboratory Inc
Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations
Who’s with me when I say that it is time for some change? To reiterate for the benefit of those who don’t already know, I am not a Democrat. I am a Libertarian. This time, though, we just need to be rid of GW. At any cost.
What’s wrong with men today?
26 JulI think Sam Keen has hit the nail on the head. I need to read this book. Not because I did this, but to feel better about the fact that I went the other way. “patience, honesty, kindness, contentment, wisdom”. At least I try on a regular basis to lean that way. I may not always make it, but I am so not the typical man. Sometimes, that is a really hard road to follow, with the male world judging me as less than a “real man” for it.
“When men who have spent their formative years in extroverted action first turn toward the unknown country of the soul, they soon reach a desert — the vast nothingness. Before rebirth comes the painful awareness that we have long been dead. Before feeling comes the dreadful knowledge that we have been anesthetized and are numb.”
“Little did we understand that by doing the manly thing, girding up our loins, pulling in our guts, pushing out our chests, and constricting our breathing, we forced most feelings into exile in our unconscious.”
“Perhaps the greatest price men have paid for their obsession with fearlessness is to have become tough on the outside, but empty within. We are hollow men.”
“We reduced our world to an arena in which courage is constantly demanded and the other virtues — patience, honesty, kindness, contentment, wisdom — are not cultivated.”
Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
by Sam Keen
Quote of the random period of time
23 JulComputers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
Andy Rooney (1919 – )
