Running the Country III
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
— H. L. Menken
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Public Speaking
ByHeatherThe human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
We just decided to go
ByHeatherFrom now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it’s not a miracle, we just decided to go.
— Jim Lovell
There is a scene in the movie Apollo 13 in which astronaut Jim Lovell is hosting a dinner party at his house. At some point in the evening he escapes the hubbub of his guests and takes a seat in a lawn chair in the back yard. When someone comes out to join him he utters the phrase above.
The moon landings were the culmination of a gargantuan series of tasks. Thousands of people invested hundreds of thousands of hours coordinating and delivering on thousands of tasks. It wasn’t a miracle that we landed on the moon. We just set our minds to it and decided to go.
Theme of the week: Just decide to go.
Adaptation
ByHeatherIt is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
— Charles Darwin
Achieving the Impossible
ByHeatherThings are only impossible . . . until they’re not.
— Jean-Luc Picard
Certainty / Doubt
ByHeatherThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
— Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)