#lexi

Planning is helpful. If you don’t know what you want, you’ll seldom get it. But, no matter how well you plan, you will fare better if you expect the unexpected. The unexpected, by nature, comes unseen, unthought, unenvisioned. All you can do is plan to go unplanned, prepare to be unprepared, make going with the flow part of your agenda, for the most successful among us envision, plan, and prepare, but cast all aside as needed, while those who are unable to go with the flow often suffer, if they survive. ↗

— David W. Jones

#flexibility #flow #going-with-the-flow #nature

The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#lexington #nature

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#fool #genius #simplicity #simplicity

There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps. ↗

— James F. Amos

#comes #corps #flexibility #go #hardship

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#core #crime #criminal #evil #hypocrite

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ↗

— David Bailey

#dyslexic #i #put #school #silly

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported. ↗

— Jack Adams

#carrier #did #group #japanese #launch

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Jack Adams

#around #built #carrier #chicago #december

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. ↗

— John Adams

#arise #circulation #coin #confederation #confusion

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#clearly #important #important issue #issue #most