Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 26 " Receive without pride, let go without attachment. " ―  Marcus Aurelius  ( Meditations, 8.33 ) Alternative translation : " Receive [wealth or prosperity] without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. "   Triggered by a recent Daily Stoics tweet : "Receive without pride, let go without attachment." — Marcus Aurelius What do you think this means? pic.twitter.com/eGHrpPfZIz — Daily Stoic (@dailystoic) June 13, 2024

Quote of the Week 25 " Journalists ought not to be serving a cause, no matter how good." ― Walter Lippmann Triggered by last week's The Pioneer Briefing podcast " Die Medien tragen nicht unerheblich zur gesellschaftlichen Verrohung bei " and a controversial award . Hanns Joachim Friedrichs  made a variation of the quote popular in Germany :  „Einen guten Journalisten erkennt man daran, dass er Distanz zum Gegenstand seiner Betrachtung hält; dass er sich nicht gemeinmacht mit einer Sache, auch nicht mit einer guten Sache; dass er immer dabei ist, aber nie dazugehört.“

  2nd Quote of the Week 24 " A word model is not a world model." ―  Alan Bipe

2nd Quote of the Week 24 "Victory belongs to the most persevering." ― Napoleon Bonaparte Triggered by a variant of the quote as seen during the 2024 French Open final : "Victory belongs to the most tenacious." ― Roland Garros

Quote of the Week 23 " You can have it all, just not all at the same time." ― Betty Friedan A variation of the quote is attributed to Oprah Winfrey : " You can have it all. Just not all at once." Triggered by a recent Pivot podcast . Related  quote of week 4/24 : "Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.    Space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you." ―  Susan Sontag