Friday Filosophy #2016-12

Every now and then I get caught and don’t get this Friday Filosophy done until Monday. That makes me late. That makes me tardy. Today, for Friday Filosophy #2016-12, I thought I would share some interesting quotes on tardiness. Have a great week.

How did it get so late so soon?

Dr. Seuss

 

I want to scream sometimes, because I hate when people refer to a dead person as the “late” so and so. I’m sorry to break the bad news, but that person isn’t just late – they’re not even coming.

Jarod Kintz

 

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier that the people who have to wait for them.

Edward Verrall Lucas

 

Ah, nothing is too late, until the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you haven’t noticed, the dead are always on time.

Arlene Ang

 

Maybe it’s because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

Jan Karon

 

One is never too late to become young at heart.

Nadun Lokuliyanage

 

Leaders should know how fast time runs and how much faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.

Israelmore Ayivor

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-11

From expertise last week I want to go to perseverance this week in our Friday Filosophy #2016-11. I truly believe that if everything we faced were easy, then it would already be done. By extension, some of us will go to places in our lives that are not easy. There we become trailblazers, pioneers. There we will realize failures and setbacks. It is perseverance that sets you apart.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Pele

 

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Julie Andrews

 

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.  We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

 

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realize the great life.

P.J. Abdul Kalam

 

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Ben Carson

 

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

 

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

 

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Newt Gingrich

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-10

Today in our Friday Filosophy #2016-10, I want to focus on expertise. One of the attributes that I believe is important to follow is “Jack of all trades, Master of none.” You obtain expertise by spending time acquiring the skills and the experience. However, it is important to be a broad based individual with knowledge spanning a lot of disciplines if possible.

 

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

 

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Niels Bohr

 

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Nicholas Butler

 

We are all experts in our own little niches.

Alex Trebek

 

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years.

Muhammad Ali

 

All great achievements require time.

Maya Angelou

 

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

William Wallace.

 

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

 

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson.

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-9

Today – for Friday Filosophy #2016-9 – I would like to address productivity. First is the definition. Productivity is an economic measure of output per unit of input. Inputs typically cover labor (other things as well but labor for our purpose today) while output is typically measured in revenues.

Today we are living in “The Computer Age.” How has the computer changed productivity? Is it for the better or not? A recent TED talk I saw highlighted that our world is one where it is now “Brains not Brawn” – “Ideas not Things” – “Mind not Matter.” We are also seeing a decoupling of our economy in traditional ways. Productivity increases have not translated into either more jobs or better pay. So here is our Friday Filosophy for you to contemplate.  Please send me your thoughts or comments. Thanks.

 

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire

 

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison

 

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Thomas Sowell

 

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Warren Buffett

 

Nine men impregnating the same woman cannot deliver a baby in a month.

          Ron Slee

 

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

 

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

Timothy Feriss 

 

The time is now.