Care, prudence, and caution are fundamental aspects of worldly obligation. While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. [Francis of Assisi] ... Read More about Being Careful, Prudent and Cautious
To survive, at least some of us must work. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. [attributed to Vince Lombardi] The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good ... Read More about Working
Reason is a level beyond rationality. To understand the world is never a matter of simply recording our immediate perceptions. Understanding inescapably involves reasoning. [Amartya Sen, The Idea ... Read More about Reasoning
Beyond mere willingness is interest, the emotional component of level-two responsibility in all our relations. Taking an interest is an essential building block to learning and to ... Read More about Being Interested
A core commitment to honoring everyone’s intrinsic worth implies obligations in our material/conceptual relations. These include taking an interest, reasoning, and working. . . . every right ... Read More about Meeting Obligations in the World
Ideals frequently are in conflict with practical realities. Try as we might to hold fast to our principles, there are times for compromise and flexibility. There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere ... Read More about Being Scrupulous, Yet Flexible
When you feel yourself running from a challenge, turn around and run into it. Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of ... Read More about Pushing Through Your Resistance
Speaking directly and without reservation, without being overly aggressive or intimidating, is an important social skill. I am not intimidating, I am forthright! [attributed to Deborah Meaden] ... Read More about Being Forthright and Straightforward
Principles are rules of conduct. They are essential guides to ethical behavior but rarely can be taken as absolutes. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like ... Read More about Being Principled