@existential potential,
Religion is the price we pay for human cognition.
Existence is the relationship between "things" and "thingers".
@existential potential,
tautology is learned but never taught and learned
aphorisms as statements tend to take the pith
@oolongteasup,
Your own aphorisms should become others.
[Does that work?]
Being is not so much proven as intuited
if i could take it with me, i'd leave tomorrow
this idea grew out of a pot talk session in the 80's, it had less to do with simple possession and more to do with what would you take to a desert island
i was thinking if i could take my walkman a few tapes, a camera with some rolls of film and some good books, i'd love to see what lay beyond the veil, so to speak
it would be even better now, with ipods, digital camera (stills and video) and kindle like devices
It is great to be important. But it is more important to be great.
be alert. the world needs more lerts.
@Rockhead,
“It is the tone of a voice that is most deceptive, and more consciously or unconsciously cunning for that reason”
@Sglass,
Sglass wrote:
It is great to be important. But it is more important to be great.
I bet u coud convince Alexander of that.
The sun don't shine on the same dogs ass every day.
@chai2,
Something I learned as a boy scout:
No matter how much you dislike your job, it probably beats picking up road kill for a living.
not my aphorism, but i take it to heart
where ever you are, be somewhere else
Nothing important is ever achieved without a little constructive anxiety.
@georgeob1,
But you can achieve contructive anxiety over nothing important
@George,
Perhaps so, but really just a semantical twist. Constructive implies importance.
A corollary for leaders is that the leader's job is to create that anxiety, not to relieve his deputies of it.
@georgeob1,
a good leader should have nothing to do.
@dyslexia,
dyslexia wrote:
a good leader should have nothing to do.
True, with respect to the real work. His job is to set direction; create the needed constructive anxiety; observe (but not become engrossed in the details to the extent he can't redirect) operations; and provide feedback, good and bad. Sometimes hard to do. Most creative folks are lousy delegators.
