Quote and Monologue of the Month - March 2020

1. “If you want to fly in the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.” - Amit Ray

2. “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.” - Robert Jordan

3. We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.” - Thomas Hardy

4. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” - Oscar Wilde

5. “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.” - Bertolt Brecht

6. “You want to hire someone that’s honest, smart, and hardworking. You want to look for those traits in that order because if they’re dishonest, you’d strongly prefer that they be dumb and lazy.” - Warren Buffet

7. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.” - Lao Tzu

8. “Hell is truth seen too late.” (This is the quote we thought of when we saw this article: “The Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History.”) - Thomas Hobbes

9. “We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.” - Malcolm Gladwell

10. “It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.” - Malcolm Gladwell