“People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.” PeopleReasonAsksFailingHumilitySeriousTake TimeIt Takes TimeRight Questions Author:William Maxwell
“From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.” HumansSpiritHuman BeingsDealsLeaderFailingSeriousPerspectiveBetrayalHuman Potential Book:Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader Source: Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader
“Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.” PeopleShouldStatesProblemRealityPoliticalPoliticsNatureCommunityLeadershipJusticeAnswersDemocracyFocusFailingSecurityPolicySeriousWeaponsEthicsStrategyClimateHuman RightsExtremesTerrorismNuclearWeatherIdeologyForeign PolicyNuclear WeaponsFloodNational SecurityDiplomacyDisruptionDroughtInstabilityGood QuestionsExtreme WeatherPolitical Instability Author:Van Jones
“I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.” KnowsMenWayShowsMightReligiousLordWifeFailingSeriousDutyAnxietyMeetingsPrivilegeVariousNeglectPardonMisgivings Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse
“Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.” IfsMightGuyFailingTroubleSeriousWoundsFinding YourselfOccupationCollaborationBad Guys Author:Niall Ferguson
“I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.” PeopleThinkingPersonsImportantFeelingsLossFailingSeriousBecomingHeroScreensDecentSentimentalNormAnti Hero Author:Brendan Gleeson
“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .” IfsWellsMeanHelpingChristianSufferingNaturalExistenceChristianityFailingEmotionalSeriousDemandOrdinaryCrossesShameEverydayForgottenTrialsUpliftingRejectionDiscipleshipCalamityTribulationTrials And Tribulations Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer