by Tony Mayo | Communication, Conversation, & Confrontation, For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
The principles of meeting facilitation, as delineated three centuries ago.
…a mutual deference is affected; contempt of others disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained, without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority. These attentions and regards are immediately agreeable to others, abstracted from any consideration of utility or beneficial tendencies: they conciliate affection, promote esteem, and extremely enhance the merit of the person who regulates his behaviour by them.
–David Hume 1711-1776
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Section VIII Of Qualities Immediately Agreeable To Others.
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
Indifference
The opposite of love is not to hate
It is indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness
It is indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy
It is indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death
It is indifference.
–Elie Wiesel
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
In the Arena
It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again, because
there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and
who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that
his place shall never be with those
cold and timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat.
–President Theodore Roosevelt
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
Life is not lost by dying!
Life is not lost
minute by minute,
day by dragging day,
in all the thousand
small, uncaring ways,
The smooth appeasing
compromises of time.
Life can be lost without
vision but not lost by death.
Lost by not caring,
not willing,
not going on
beyond the ragged edge of
fortitude
To something more –
something no man has ever
seen.
–Stephen Vincent Benét
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
Paradoxically, to survive depression you have to give yourself over to it. You have to embrace the darkness, or enter into the darkness, or let yourself become the darkness, and try not to judge yourself for it.
You also have to try as much as possible to honor whatever small signs of progress might come as you work your way through that darkness, or as it works its way through you.
–Parker J. Palmer, Ph.D.
THE SUN INTERVIEW NOVEMBER 2012
If Only We Would Listen
What We Could Learn About Politics, Faith, And Each Other
See also Resistance is Futile on this blog.
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
I have a firm belief in this now, not only in terms of my own experience, but in knowing the experiences of other people. When you follow your bliss, and by bliss I mean the deep sense of being in it, and doing what the push is out of your own existence – it may not be fun, but it’s your bliss, and there’s bliss behind pain too.
You follow that and doors will open where there were no doors before, where you would not have thought there’d be doors, and where there wouldn’t be a door for anybody else. There’s something about the integrity of a life. And the world moves in and helps. It really does.
And I think the best thing I can say is to follow your bliss. If your bliss is just your fun and your excitement, you’re on the wrong track. I mean, you need instruction. Know where your bliss is. And that involves coming down to a deep place in yourself.”
–Joseph Campbell
The Hero’s Journey:
Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
p. 217
Emphasis added to remind you to get a coach. Don’t just drift into hedonism.
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
–John Donne
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
I use Twitter to share brief messages, not more than two per day. You can have them delivered to your cell phone by text message (SMS) or view them when you visit your free Twitter web page. Create a Twitter account and “follow” TonyMayo. Here are my recent tweets (messages):
No matter how intense the suffering, no matter how tight you might be clinging, there is the possibility of dropping it. –Jonathan Foust
No goofs, no growth. –Tony Mayo See Stanford University research by clicking here.
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures. –-Charles Noble
Becoming a CEO coach isn’t easy: “What is to give light must endure burning” —Dr. Viktor Frankl
… we now live in an era where people of vision are the only practical people. Functioning at the level of what is reasonable is as impractical as one can get. …be willing to bring forth a vision–not in ignorance of the circumstances or what is reasonable, but in addition to all that. —Werner Erhard
I am the equal to all I meet because of the kindness in my heart. —Sarah Adams
If you want to know the culture of a company, then ignore the written stuff and go to a meeting. — Edgar Henry Schein of MIT Sloan Click here for more on meetings that matter.
Prior tweets are here, at Twitter Logs.
___ ©2011 Tony Mayo
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
Life moves on, whether we act as heroes or cowards.
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but 
realize it, than to accept life unquestionably. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serve to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
–Henry Miller
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
—Arthur Ashe
1943-1993
Tennis champion
Recent Comments