What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
-Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900, Irish playwright, novelist, poet.
My take: true, you have to change your face to meet the faces that you meet, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot.
Archive for May 17th, 2008
Insincerity
Posted in Quotation, tagged faces, insincerity, Oscar Wilde, personalities, Wilde on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sharpen the axe.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abraham Lincoln, awe, Lincoln, sharpen on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening the axe.
-Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, sixteenth Amercan President
My take: maybe this is where the “sharpening the saw” metaphor comes from in self help books.
Knowledge
Posted in Quotation, tagged Edison, knowledge, limits, one percent, Thomas Alva Edison on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
-Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, American inventor.
My take: Just think what the future holds if this is true. Look at what the world has become just over the past twenty years with the internet, computers, wireless tech, new medicines and on and on. Now if we can [...]
