What they said ? - April

 April

Oh! to be in England
Now that April's there.

(R.Browning, Home Thoughts from Abroad)

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

(T.S.Eliot, The Waste Land)

April, April
Laugh thy girlish laughter;
Then, the moment after,
Weep thy girlish tears!

(William Watson, Song)

What they said ? - THE PARADOX OF OUR TIME - By GEORGE CARLIN

What they said ?

THE PARADOX OF OUR TIME - By GEORGE CARLIN

• The paradox of our time in history is that we have, taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less: we buy more, but enjoy it less.
• We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
• We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tire, read too seldom, watch TV too much and pray too seldom.
• We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.  We love too seldom and hate too often.  We have learned how to make a living, but not a life.  We've added years to life but not life to years.
• We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.  We've conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.  We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.  We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.
• We write more, but learn less.  We plan more, accomplish less.  We've learned to rush, but not to wait.  We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
• These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationship.
• There are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
• These are the days of two incomes, but more diverce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
• These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet to kill.

(Reproduced from NABARD Management News Digest - Oct-Dec 1999).

What they said ? - On Learning

What they said?

ON LEARNING

learning is finding out  
what you already know
doing is demonstrating 
that you know it
teaching is reminding others
that they know it
just as well as you do
you are all learners, doers, teachers.

- Richard Bach

Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, among others. Bach's books espouse his philosophy that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance. He claims to be a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach is noted for his love of flying and for his books related to air flight and flying in a metaphorical context. He has pursued flying as a hobby since the age of 17. In late August 2012 Bach was badly injured when on approach to landing at Friday Harbor his aircraft clipped some power lines and crashed.