TIS BULLETIN: 31st July, 2020

Thought for the Week

Habits are a double-edged sword. Bad habits can cut you down just as easily as good habits can build you up, which is why understanding the details is crucial.
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 17th July, 2020

Thought for the Week

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
~ Mary Angelou

TIS BULLETIN: 03rd July, 2020

Thought for the Week

There is only one way to succeed in everything, and that is to give it everything.
~ Vince Lombardi

TIS BULLETIN: 12th June, 2020

Thought for the Week

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they have all learned to live together in the
same box.
~ Robert Fulghum

TIS BULLETIN: 03rd June, 2020

Thought for the Week

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
~ Haruki Murakami

TIS BULLETIN: 29th May, 2020

Thought for the Week

Be in the driver’s seat. (Don’t be a follower. Stay true to yourself. Don’t let other people’s dumb ideas get you into trouble.)
~ Bill Murphy Jr’s mother

TIS BULLETIN: 22nd May, 2020

Thought for the Week

There are seven days in one week and someday is not one of them
~ Anon

TIS BULLETIN: 15th May, 2020

Thought for the Week

There is nothing wrong with striving to be the best, fastest, richest or smartest, but remember that your story doesn’t have to end there.
~ Dr Tommy Weir

TIS BULLETIN: 08th May, 2020

Thought for the Week

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur.

You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
~ Nelson Mandela

TIS BULLETIN: 30th April, 2020

Thought for the Week

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things and only the wise can see them.
~ Paulo Coelho

TIS BULLETIN: 24th April, 2020

Thought for the Week

Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through
hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
~ Vince Lombardi

TIS BULLETIN: 17th April, 2020

Thought for the Week

The virus isn’t spreading. PEOPLE are spreading the virus.
~ Emily Mistry

TIS BULLETIN: 03rd April, 2020

Thought for the Week

The butterfly does not look back upon the caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
~ Guillermo del Toro

TIS BULLETIN: 26th March, 2021

Thought for the Week

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
~ bell hooks

TIS BULLETIN: 19th March, 2021

Thought for the Week

Just keep in mind the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
~ Epictetus

TIS BULLETIN: 12th March, 2021

Thought for the Week

Today is the only day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
~ Ernest Hemingway

TIS BULLETIN: 5th March, 2021

Thought for the Week

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.
~ Thomas Edison

TIS BULLETIN: 26th February, 2021

The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.
~ Nassim Taleb

TIS BULLETIN: 19th February, 2021

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
~! Albert Schweitzer

TIS BULLETIN: 12th February, 2021

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
~ Larry King

TIS BULLETIN: 5th February, 2022

Things that keep talented people from fulfilling their potential:
– Trying to please everyone.
– Imitating the desires of others.
– Chasing status without questioning why.
– Playing superhero and trying to do it all alone.
– Dividing your attention between too many projects.
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 29th January, 2021

There are nearly endless opportunities to improve each day and finding them largely boils down to being curious. People who are better in the end are usually curious in the beginning.
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 22nd January, 2021

The biggest generator of longterm results is learning to do things when you don’t feel like
doing them.
~ Shane Parrish

TIS BULLETIN: 15th January, 2021

Reading speed is nothing more than signalling. Skim broadly to find something worth reading. Then dive in slowly and deeply. It’s not how fast you read but what you absorb that matters.
~ Shane Parris

TIS BULLETIN: 8th January, 2021

The secret to winning is learning how to lose. That is, learning to bounce back from failure and disappointment—undeterred— and continuing to steadily march toward your potential. Your response to failure determines your capacity for success.

~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 11th December, 2020

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz

TIS BULLETIN: 4th December, 2020

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain

TIS BULLETIN: 27th November, 2020

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
~ Paulo Coelho

TIS BULLETIN: 20th November, 2020

When you learn, teach. When you get, give
~ Mary Angelou

TIS BULLETIN: 13th November, 2020

If you do the work, you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.
~ Michael Jordan

TIS BULLETIN: 6th November, 2020

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
~ Pete Seeger

TIS BULLETIN: 25th October, 2019

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
~ Albert Einstein

TIS BULLETIN: 18th October, 2019

Failure is part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

~ Hank Aaron

TIS BULLETIN: 11th October, 2019

Never accept being a spectator. Your actions become your reputation.
~ Dr Ken Darvall

TIS BULLETIN: 4th October, 2019

When you repeat a mistake, it’s not a mistake anymore. It’s a decision.
~ Paulo Coelho

TIS BULLETIN: 27th September 2019

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
~ Flannery O’Connor

TIS BULLETIN: 20th September 2019

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or back into safety.
~ Abraham Maslow

TIS BULLETIN: 13th September 2019

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’- are those that require the most thought.
~ Pythagoras

TIS BULLETIN: 6th September 2019

The journey is the reward.
~ Proverb

TIS BULLETIN: 30th August, 2019

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~ E M Forster

TIS BULLETIN: 23rd August, 2019

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t
move.
~ Katharine Hepburn

TIS BULLETIN: 16th August, 2019

You can forget facts, but you can’t forget understanding.
~ Eric Mazur