Friday Filosophy #2016-17

Over the past three to four decades there has been many trillions of dollars spent on technology. Unfortunately there has not been the same investment in sociology. Friday Filosophy #2016-17 offers some timely quotes on technology.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

 

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

If someone tells you that you have a lot of potential when you are sixteen that is a complement. If that some someone tells you that you have a lot of potential at sixty six you have to ask what you have done for the past fifty years.

R.J. Slee

 

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

 

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

 

Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Carrier Snow

 

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards escalate.

Alvin Toffler

 

The internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

 

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-16

One of the many challenges we have in this workplace and life is the use of time, the constant pressures, the feeling of being out of control of our lives. With that in mind I offer you some quotes on Serenity in Friday Filosophy #2016-16. I have been searching for serenity in my life for many years now. The search continues.

 

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

 

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

 

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But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn’t make me happy. If you want peace and serenity, it won’t be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

Elle Macpherson

 

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Alain Badiou

 

A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity.

James E. Faust.

 

A garden must contain the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Luis Barragan

 

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn’t anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that’s a good run.

Michael Weatherly

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-15

One of the many misunderstandings that people have about management is that they equate it to leadership. You manage processes, but you lead people.  For Friday Filosophy #2016-15, some thoughts about leadership, from leaders.

 

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Margaret Thatcher.

 

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.

Ronald Reagan

 

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Before you can be of any value to anyone else you must be of value to yourself.

R.J. Slee

 

The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

 

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

There are no office hours for leaders.

Cardinal J. Gibbons

 

When people talk, listen completely.

Ernest Hemingway

 

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

 

A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is don’t, his aim fulfilled, they will say we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-14

As I am late this week, my daughter is teasing me that I want it to be Friday already.

Our Friday Filosophy is aimed at inspiring people to stop and reflect on the subject of the week. To allow you to think about your situation and be inspired to grow as a person and as a professional.   With that in mind this week, in our Friday Filosophy #2016-14, we focus on personal growth.  

 

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E Frankl

 

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

The Dalai Lama

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

 

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

 

Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

 

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

 

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

 

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-13

Malcolm Gladwell brings to us the 10,000 Rule based on a study by Anders Ericsson in his book “Outliers.” Gladwell explains that reaching the 10,000-Hour Rule, which he considers the key to success in any field, is simply a matter of practicing a specific task that can be accomplished with 20 hours of work a week for 10 years. This is the preparation required to become an expert. With Friday Filosophy #2016-13 let’s explore expertise.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.

Werner Heisenberg

 

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending above all else.

Glenn Greenwald

 

Skills are common. Talent is rare.

Colin Clark

 

A fine single malt whisky, of course, is purely medicinal – it cures all manner of ailments one may care to imagine.

Alex Morritt

 

Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.

Robert A. Heinlein

 

If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity.

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

 

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our Universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

Heather Wilson

 

The time is now.