Quote of the Week
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
(as seen in http://ny-forum.com/)
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Pessimistic or Optimistic? Determined Pessimist.
Today at an event at Benny and Channa Levy’s in EinHod, which the Egyptian Ambassador attended, I was asked by one of the guestshow I managed to stay so optimistic. While the question was asked in a sincere way meant as a compliment, I explained that for me this has nothing to do with optimism [...]
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Quote of the Week: "IF" by Rudyard Kipling
My friend Andy Komaroff shared this beautiful poem tonight at the rehearsal dinner for my wedding: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait [...]
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Quote of the Week: Creating New Choices
Roger Martin, Dean at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, gave an interesting presentation at the Opening Plenary at the Skoll World Forum today: Whether or not Barack Obama is your President or, as is the case for me, another country’s leader, most of you, I suspect, watched the President’s inauguration speech [...]
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Quote of the Week – extreme reactions not the right course
Some powerful precepts from a conversation I had with Chief Rabbi David Rosen, President of the ICJRC and the pre-eminent leader in relations between different faiths: There is a lot that divides us [of different faiths], but more which unites us [as human beings with a shared destiny]. If we affirm an omnipresent deity that [...]
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Quote of the Week: Coldplay will Fix You
The only thing better than lyrics from Coldplay’s songs are their actual songs. Chris Martin’s vocals melt and reassemble the soul at once. Here are the lyrics from FIX YOU – but if you haven’t heard the song, you should. When You Try your best but you don’t succeed When you get what you want [...]
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