Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.’ — George Carlin #thoughtfortoday #working #passion #growth #entrepreneur #leader #goals There comes a point in every entrepreneurial startup when you realise you have hired someone who doesn’t actually care about the business.…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Living in the midst of a world where there was a plethora of the new I attached myself to the old.’ — Henry Miller #thoughtfortoday #wfh #workfromhome #flexible #working #dinosaur #badmanagement #loudmouth Lord Alan Sugar has described people who want to work from home and have flexible working arrangements as “lazy…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.’   — Matt Haig   #thoughtfortoday #selfcare #relax #chill #priorities #findthetime #lookafteryourself   I often hear the words, “I don’t have time to…”   It is…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.’   — Winston Churchill   #thoughtfortoday #living #getting #life #giving #balance #ikigai   I have been on a long slow journey going from A to B.   In A, I was able to…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.’   — H Jackson Brown, Jr…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘The strongest presence is so often an absence.’   — Steve Rasnic Tem   #thoughtfortoday #absence #presence #people #photography #deception #play   I studied photography as a student and got paid work almost immediately.   I have dipped back into it at times, something will spur me on to pick…

📅 Thought for today: ‘We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.’ — Bill Watterson #thoughtfortoday #daysout #trip #art #timeforme #tigger #calvin #calvinandhobbes We all have to look after ourselves. I may not work really long hours, but the hours are intense.…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Who dares, can.’ — Bruce Ropner #thoughtfortoday #obituary #dare #cando #inspiration One of the things I enjoy is reading the obituaries in The Times (newspaper, London). Yes, I read a printed paper every day, it is part of my morning ritual. The obits are full of treasure, the lives of other…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.’   — Ayn Rand   #thoughtfortoday #creativity #writing #focus #achievement #notwinning #valued   Why do we celebrate greed, wealth, and winning?   When we know that there are more valuable human qualities than…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.’ — Abraham Joshua Heschel #thoughtfortoday #faith #pilgrimage #heart #therapy #religion #difference #similarity I just finished watching the three episodes of Pilgrimage: The Road to the Scottish Isles, a BBC program following a diverse group of well-known…