…something basic is missing. There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. And also the only real tragedy in life is the being used by personally minded men for purposes which you recognize to be base.
–George Bernard Shaw in
Man And Superman A Comedy And A Philosophy
Epistle Dedicatory To Arthur Bingham Walkley
See also, Success = Fully Engaged
The final idea for civic life is that every man and every woman should set before themselves this goal–that by the labor of their lifetime they shall pay the debt of their rearing and education, and also contribute sufficient for an handsome maintenance during their old age.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
–George Bernard Shaw quoted in
George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works
A Critical Biography (authorized)
By Archibald Henderson
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A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
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One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – Ubuntu – you are known for your generosity.
We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.
i am he as you are he as
you are me and we are all together!–John Lennon
I am the walrus
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If you have had a good time playing the game, you are a winner even if you lose. –Malcolm Forbes
Our dalliances and detours define us. There are no maps to guide our most important searches. –Dr. Gordon Livingston
The unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates Apology 38a
This executive coach can lead your examination.Remove unwelcome emotion–sadness, fear, regret–by relaxing into it. Resistance is futile.
The best time to worry is when you are winning. –Tony Mayo
All models are wrong, but some are useful. –Statistician George E. P. Box
Leadership is the ability to get others to do what they do not want to do and like it. –Harry Truman
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© 2010 Tony Mayo
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No one can make you responsible, nor can you impose responsibility on another. It is a grace you give yourself–an empowering context that leaves you with a say in the matter of life. —Werner Erhard
Most scalable management method? Focus on improving your people not the product.
The fastest way to improve your communications is to cut them in half.
I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.–Clara Barton
Stress is a symptom of not wanting to be in the moment we’re in. —Eckhart Tolle
Anyone who fights for the future lives in it today. —Ayn Rand
Demonstrate the behavior desired. People would rather be led than pushed. –Tony Mayo
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© 2009 Tony Mayo
I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.
Click here for more posts on luck.
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Self-respect is worth more than anything gained at its expense.
Sadness is a healthy reminder to acknowledge a loss.
Appreciating satiety is the ultimate luxury. Recognizing “enough.”
Great coaching from a sign in a casino, “You must be present to win.” A post on meditation for executives is here.
An executive’s job is to make a good enough decision with not enough information. –Tony Mayo
Why your company must grow–or die. See the chart here.
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© 2009 Tony Mayo
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
–Walter Bagehot
Founding Editor of The Economist
in Physics and Politics, 1879
My job as a coach is to get you to do what you do not want to do, so you can be what you want to be.
–Attributed to Tom Landry
NFL head coach
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so –Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act 2 Scene II
Your biggest competitor is not a competitor; it’s (more…)
In the night, in the dark, the tragedy part was always to the front, and always warning, always threatening; and so I moaned and tossed, and sleep was hard to find. But in the cheerful daylight the tragedy element faded out and diappeared, and I walked on air, and was happy to giddiness, to intoxication, you may say.
–Mark Twain
The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
— The rueful murderer in
Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Act II Scene 2
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