Humans are evolutionarily predisposed to resist change and, the older we get the more change resistant we become.. Nevertheless, despite our instinctive resistance to change, we must learn to embrace new challenges. In today’s society the pace of development is immensely accelerating, and as Charles Darwin said once: “It is […]
The world is crazy! When I say that I mean the so-called ‘developed’ world. There seems to be an ‘epidemic’ amongst the youngsters. There are thousands of kids who are struggling to establish themselves and begin their lives. It doesn’t matter in which direction I look, with whom I speak, […]
Confucius – 551 BC to 479 BC – was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. One of the greatest strengths of Confucius is probably the superiority of personal exemplification over explicit rules of behaviour. His […]
It was almost 100 years ago that Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-British philosopher, said, “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”. Geoffrey Willans, an English author and journalist, said at around the same period, “You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.”. Languages […]
Welcome to our collection of Dr. Seuss quotes that have the power to change you (and your life) if you follow their messages. Simple, easy to remember, expressive, witty, meaningful and poignant – that is what Dr. Seuss was famous for. It seems almost unbelievable that Dr. Seuss (or, Theodor […]
Everyone has a bad day, sometimes it may have been a bad year, or even a bad decade. Nevertheless, we have to keep going. We have to force ourselves to break through the ‘bad luck’. One good deed every day! Every day we have to try to do something that […]
It was more than 50 years ago that Paul Oscar Johnson, a Major League Baseball outfielder said: “The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.” We’ll try to prove him wrong… There are many great meaningful words, from the past as well as from the present. Our hand-picked […]
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. This Swedish Proverb summarises very well the whole message of this quotes collection. One worries far too much. What will happen will happen. You can do nothing about it! Have you ever watched a hamster racing around one of those circular […]
The expression ‘think outside the box’ is a mantra frequently quoted, especially in business meetings. Its intention is to encourage creativity, innovation, and imaginative thinking. However, in most cases the phrase is meaningless and instead becomes a rather misleading cliché… Firstly, you need not only to understand ‘the box’ concept […]
Throughout our website Soccerwidow we talk about statistics, especially in connection with sports results, odds calculation, and betting, and we can assure you that nothing within this field carries a full one hundred percent probability. But when it comes to the subject of life, absolute certainty does exist. The undesirable […]
