Random quotations with elaboration

 

Source	Quotation/Paraphrase	Elaboration/Question
Roger Schank	All learning is failure driven.	Why are some so unforgiving of a child failing but look the other way when an adult leader fails?
Anders Ericsson	Sustained reflective practice leads to the development of expertise.	What happens when someone is incapable of self-reflection?
Oets Kolk Bouwsma	Surely your life will show what you think of yourself.	Where can I hide from others?
Leviticus (Hebrew Bible)	Love your neighbor as yourself.	All neighbors, near and far, those like you and those unlike you.
Friedrich Nietzsche	The surest way youth is to teach them to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.	Respecting and trying to understand those with whom one disagrees is an attribute unique to humankind, but not found in all persons.
Socrates	The unexamined life is not worth living.	An examination implies admission of ignorance and a search for understanding.
Confucius	The man who says he can and the man who says he cannot are both correct.	Becoming is a harder challenge than being.
Buddha	Those who are free from resentful thoughts surely find peace.	Probably also true for those who speak ill of others.
Quran	Speak to all people good words.	When they are here or not.
Moses	I have been a stranger in a strange land.	Welcome to America.
Lincoln	You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading today.	For those who like to refer to Lincoln …
Ruth to Naomi	Where you shall go, I shall go.	Friendship and loyalty are real treasures.

 

I voted

 I voted by mail in Texas last week. I did not vote for someone who has lied more than 20,000 times in the last four years. I did not vote for someone who continues to separate families at the border. I did not vote for someone who disparages women and people of color and anyone who happens to disagree or challenge him. I did not vote for someone who pays less income tax than I do. I did not vote for someone who infected others with a deadly virus. I did not vote for someone who wants to take away affordable health care from millions of people during a pandemic. I did not vote for someone who is packing the supreme court during an election. But I did vote. By mail. Without risking exposure or risk exposing others. In Texas. I voted in a state in the midst of active vote and voter suppression by the governor. I voted. Could this be the third time I voted for someone who wins the popular vote but is not elected President? To paraphrase Charles Dickens, it is the best of times (for too few probably) … it is the worst of time (for too many probably) … should I escape to Canada or move to Bali where differences are respected and embraced?  "do I dare disturb the  universe?" (thanks to T. S. Eliot). Do I dare? I am most certainly disturbed.