Quote of the Day

“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.” — Lionel Trilling, “F. Scott Fitzgerald,” The Liberal Imagination

Quote of the Day

“We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Quote of the Day

“When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.” — Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams of a Cynic

Quote of the Day

“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.” — J. K. Rowling, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination”

Lyric of the Day — March 4th 2014

“If you say you don’t like where you’re at
You can make a change
If you accept the blame
Stay in control of your reactions, yeah
It will determine the effect
Of any situation
You have the power to negate
any ulcer causing feeling
that prohibits you to think
Situation is just that
it has no special powers
to do you harm
it’s your reactions that count

If you don’t like the effect
don’t produce the cause”
— Funkadelic, If You Don’t Like the Effects Don’t Produce the Cause, America Eats Its Young (1972)

Quote of the Day

“Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.” — Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine Vol. 13, No. 4 (September 1901)