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There is a myth that Winston Churchill gave the world's shortest commencement speech when he returned to his alma mater, Harrow, in 1941. The story goes that he stood, and in Churchillian tones said those 7 words, "Never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up." Then took his seat. |
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It would have been magnificent, but it didn't happen. He gave a stirring speech and closed in this fashion.
"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
Personally, I like the abbreviated version better. No one defined resilience like Churchill. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts."
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 | A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
:: Joan Welsh |
Constant attention to health is a great hindrance to life, and taken to excess becomes a form of sickness.
:: Plato |  |
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
:: Persian proverb
 | Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "...holy shit...what a ride!"
:: Forwarded by Trina, author unknown |
No farmer ever plowed a field by turning it over in his mind.
:: Unknown |  |
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If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
:: Carrie Chapman Catt |
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
:: Samuel Goldwyn |  |
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.
:: James E. Starrs
 | Don't be afraid to take big steps. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
:: David Lloyd George |
There is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
:: Hindu proverb.
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
:: Martina Navratilova |  |
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
:: John Ruskin |
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
:: Carl Sandburg |  |
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
:: Bonnie Friedman
 | Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It's the only thing.
:: Albert Schweitzer |
From Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
New York's Skyscrapers
I looked at them and didn't see architecture. I saw infestations of middle managers, tortuous chains of command, stupor inducing meetings, ever widening gyres of email. I saw people scratching up dust like chickens and calling it work.
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