How now, my lord!
Why do you keep alone,
Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on?
Things without all remedy
Should be without regard: what’s done is done.
–Lady Macbeth to her husband
(and a million wives since,
to a million regretful husbands)Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Act III, Scene 2
Someone exercising leadership is orchestrating the process of getting factions with competing definitions of the problem to start learning from one another.
— Ron Heifetz
Harvard University
Wise Woman’s Stone
A wise woman traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry. The wise woman opened her bag to share her food.
The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She (more…)
Always remember this:
If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
–H.L. Mencken
…in the field of philosophy at the beginning of the 20th century, there was an enormous revolution. It was called the linguistic revolution, and it was the time when the understanding of language was fundamentally questioned.
Language went from simply being a shared “code” to describe reality to being a force that actually generates or creates reality. How I use offers and promises and requests and tell my “story” actually generates what is possible for me in action. And another part of the revolution was that language was now seen as action, not just words relating to action, but action itself.
When we speak, we act.
–Julio Olalla
Newfield Network
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
— Henry David Thoreau
Walden, Chapter 18
Creativity and genius are two different things. Ordinary talent growths from earth towards the sky. But genius lives in the sky and tries to reach the earth from there.
Living is loving to live,
Loving the life that you live.
Living is more than
a plan to survive.
The man who is living,
is more than alive.
–Robin Field
in his Oratorio
Reason in Rhyme
(formerly titled Three Questions)
A life absent of boldness is a sure path to regret.
Intimacy occurs when we share with another the conversations we normally have only with ourselves.
— Julio Olalla
Newfield Network
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.
It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
Jean Anouilh, 1910 – 1987
French playwright
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.
–Viktor Frankl (1905 – 1997)
in Man’s Search For Meaning
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