“One of the reasons most people don’t do well in life is because success is usually disguised behind hard work.”
Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power
“Remember, the road to success is always under construction.”
Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power
“I do not like to speak ill of any man but I strongly suspect yonder gentleman to be a lawyer.”
Samuel Johnson quoted without source in Tom Davey, For Whom the Polls Tell
In my latest Loonie Politics column I point out that Mark Carney’s slick verbiage is stunningly unreliable, not because he lies on purpose but because his colossal Donald-Trump-like self-regard bends reality for him in real time in very Trumpian fashion.
In my latest National Post column I urge Canada’s federal Conservatives to tackle their electoral and image problems by leaning into them, being the reality party instead of trying to be Liberal lite and having it fail for the umpteenth time.
“It was impressed on me by one of the best of mothers that ever lived that I must aim at being a thorough master of the work by which I had to get my living; and to be that, I must concentrate my whole energies on my work, whatever that might be, to the exclusion of every other thing. I soon discovered that if I ever accomplished anything in life it would be by pursuing my object with a persistent determination to attain it. I had neither the training nor the talents to accomplish anything without hard work, and fortunately I knew it.”
Canadian tycoon George Stephen, late in life, attributed his success to his Spartan training and singlemindedness, quoted in Pierre Berton The National Dream
“Organizations must be based on many issues. Organizations need action as an individual needs oxygen. The cessation of action brings death to the organization through factionalism and inaction, through dialogues and conferences that are actually a form of rigor mortis rather than life.”
Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals
“In 1925, one of the most popular cars in America was the 20-horsepower Ford Model T. According to the manual, the Model T tops out at 45 miles per hour. Not bad, but there’s a catch. The aerodynamics of the car are so poor that Road & Track likens it to a barn door. That’s a problem in 100 mile per hour headwinds.”
Cody Cassidy How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History’s Deadliest Catastrophes p. 191 [the context being could you escape the March 18, 1925 Tri-State Tornado in one and the answer being that in such conditions a Model T could barely keep up with a running man].