Wise Words on Wednesday: Difficulty and Opportunity
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity In every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
Category: Quotation
Wise Words On Wednesday: Yesterday and Today
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
Will Rogers
Wise Words On Wednesday: Pushed by Vision
“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
Steve Jobs
Wise Words on Wednesday: Changing the world
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Rob Siltanen
Wise Words On Wednesday: Uncertainty and Risk
“Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur.”
Mohnish Pabrai
Wise Words on Wednesday: Defeats
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
Wise Words on Wednesday: Finally Forgiving
“…Do you know, only a few weeks ago I realised suddenly that I at last had forgiven the cruel schoolmaster who so darkened my childhood.
C.S. Lewis to Mary Willis Shelburne (1963)
I’d been trying to do it for years: and like you, each time I thought I’d done it, I found, after a week or so it all had to be attempted over again.
But this time I feel sure it is the real thing. And (like learning to swim or to ride a bicycle) the moment it does happen it seems so easy and you wonder why on earth you didn’t do it years ago.
So the parable of the unjust judge comes true, and what has been vainly asked for years can suddenly be granted. I also get a quite new feeling about ‘If you forgive you will be forgiven.’ I don’t believe it is, as it sounds, a bargain. The forgiving and the being forgiven are really the very same thing. But one is safe as long as one keeps on trying”