The following “Observations” are excerpted from Chapter 1, Uncommon Sense, from my “The Book of Observations.”
There are about 2,000 “Observations” in this book.
Change is normal.
The contents are more important than the packaging.
Nothing is all it’s cranked up to be.
Life feeds on itself.
Without change, there cannot be life;with change, life is impermanent.
Instincts don’t lie.
The ultimate success is wisdom.
Haste invites delay.
The obvious speaks for itself.
Truth has no mercy.
There’s nothing as unique as individuality or as common as the conflict it causes.
Every ending marks a beginning; every beginning marks an ending.
Every new idea stokes the fires of controversy.
Only change is permanent.
Sometimes it’s necessary to re-invent the wheel.
Because there is a bottom, there can be a top.
Decision proceeds all else.
The brain is impotent in matters of the heart.
Elegant is the marriage of achievement and humility.
Those who exude confidence need to.
Everyone’s been a baby.
For children, it’s about playing; for adults, it’s about winning.
Hunger returns.
Opposites attract but do not bind.
Trust and injustice are perversely related.
Nuances are hidden among the obvious.
Rationale competes with instinct.
There is life in music.
The timid ride the brake pedal.
That which honors the equipoise endures.
We can paint only from what’s on our palette.
Until all are fed no one should be overfed.
Man’s fate is in man’s folly.
The light of creativity is not dimmed by the chaos it spawns.
Time is our most precious resource.
We learn how little we know.
Discipline liberates.
There is that which we cannot not do.
Everything’s replaceable but the source.
The inevitable can be delayed but not avoided.
Those who are flawed understand flaws.
What some see as abnormal, others see as extraordinary.
A religion cannot be a house without a foundation.
Many choose not to complicate their lives with the truth.
We must go there to have been there.