aphorisms of your own.

...but most creative work is done under lousy conditions

“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
”

(not my quote unfortunately)

My favourite leader of all time is the Patrician from Terry Prachett.
lol

The first 95 percent of a project takes 90% of the time you had budgeted to do it. The last 5 percent takes the other 90% of the time.

Silverberg's Law: 90 percent of everything is crap.

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution"--Emma Goldman

I believe that, or something very close to it was a line spoken by Orson Welles as Harry Lime in the film "The Third Man" - in the scene in the giant Vienna ferris wheel.

Yes exactly, George! I just listened to the song (made famous with the movie)
and can't get it out of my head now...

Here it is

Well, I had to do a search to discover just who Terry Prachett is. It made me realize that I was once a voracious reader of fiction, but stopped about 15 years ago. Too many "important" things to do. (I also, after reading "The Sun also Rises" made the rather sophomoric decision that I wouldn't read any more novels less than a century old, and would instead let time filter out the trash .... or something like that. Probably time to revise my thinking and get back into it. Time's a'wasting.

As a boy my favorite leaders were Leonidas and Hannibal. Later I settled on Robert E. Lee and Chester Nimitz. As time passed and experience expanded my views I found many other disparate versions of exemplary leadership from W.E. Deming to Hyman Rickover and even Maggie Thatcher.

Thanks for that Calamity - unforgettable music and an equally remarkable visual of the period and the place.. Amazing what you can find on You Tube.

you usually get out of it about what you put into it...

If u r gonna break even, then what 's the point of doing it ?

George, Prachett's not for everybody but he makes me laugh. He's books are kind of Monty Pythonesque but I love them. Sadly, I've read he now has Alzheimer's and is no longer writing.
I have been reading as much as I used to. I go through spurts of reading everything I can get my hands on and then, well...I get lazy. But I'll definitely look into the authors you've listed. Thanks

"If you are willing to die for it, you are all the more convinced of it”

“The rich man is poor, if he has not time to reflect”-Unknown

“The rich man is poor, if he has not time to enjoy his riches." Me

The unlived life is not worth examining.

only you can let yourself down.

As I said to my 3 sons many years ago " better to be the the best dust man in the world -- than the worlds worst brain surgeon "

I had never noticed this thread before. Here's one of mine:

Crime usually does not pay because of the caliber of the people who usually go into the profession.

nobody hears about smart criminals, because they don't get caught...