Theodore Roosevelt The Strenuous Life
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), The Strenuous Life
“It is as though a star throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the most abstruse problems of the physical Universe.”
Introduction, page xxv
Modern Astrophysics, London, 1924
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Vera Rubin (1928–2016) American astronomer
As quoted in Pontifical Science Academy http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/STELLAR.TXT
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Source: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
Context: From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems — the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.
Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer
Source: Leadership and the New Science (1992), p. 12
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
As quoted in Report on the Activities of the Council of People’s Commissars, Collected Works, Vol. 26, pages 459-61.
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“We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.”
Leszek Kolakowski (1927–2009) Philosopher, historian of ideas
"The Idolatry of Politics", U.S. Jefferson Lecture speech (1986)
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
1989 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1989.html <br class="br">Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012) <br class="br">Context: After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Future of Industrial Man (1942), p. 107-108