John-Charles Brom

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change - Gandhi

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

@MichaelJordaan I live in Amsterdam. So...thanks, i guess 🤔

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

“The purpose of models is not to fit the data, but to sharpen the questions.” - Samuel Karlin

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"Put all your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET." - Mark Twain

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton, 1887...equally relevant today.

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"the difference between successful, and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost anything" - Warren Buffett

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"What gets measured gets managed" - Peter Drucker

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"In the course of my adult life i have encountered more serious interest in real philosophy outside the profession than in it" - Bryan Magee

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future world depends." - Wallace Stevens

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"Less, but better." - Dieter Rams

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year." - Charlie Munger

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"An open mind is not an empty one" - Roger Fisher

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - Dickens

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." - Confucius

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." - Grace Hansen

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

'A good bottle of wine is one that calls forth another...' - paraphrase of a Bordeaux proverb

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

'You can't wake a person who is pretending to sleep'

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul"

[Max du Preez @MaxduPreez]

There is a famous old Afrikaans poem that starts like this: Stil, broers, daar gaan 'n man verby...

[John-Charles Brom @jcbgrace]

"Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations." - Alfred Adler