My Spare Brain: ODDS & ENDS: Criminal Minds Quotes, BTK Killer Speaks, Green River Killer

About My Spare Brain

I spend much time searching for things - books, films, stories, quotes, songs, jokes, pictures, poems, prayers, anything really - that helps me see and think differently. Some of the ideas I've come across are presented in my book, See New Now. Others are fleshed out in my other blog. The rest are stored here for use in future books, articles, blog posts, speeches, and workshops. There is little rhyme or reason for what I post here. I do this to encourage visitors to come here as treasure hunters looking for new ways of seeing and thinking vs. researchers looking for new or better answers to questions they already know how to ask.

PLEASE VISIT MY OTHER BLOG

My other blog is Conversation Kindling. Its purpose is to pass along stories, metaphors, quotes, songs, humor, etc. in hopes they'll be used to spark authentic and rewarding conversations about working and living fruitfully. There are at least three things you can gain by getting involved in these conversations. First, you can discover new and important things about yourself through the process of thinking out loud. Second, you can deepen your relationships with others who join you by swapping thoughts, feelings, and stories with them. Finally, you'll learn that robust dialogue centered on stories and experiences is the best way to build trust, create new knowledge, and generate innovative answers to the questions that both life and work ask.

May 25, 2010

ODDS & ENDS: Criminal Minds Quotes, BTK Killer Speaks, Green River Killer

Criminal Minds - Season 3

"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone." - George Washington

"He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." - Lao Tzu

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; nothing more difficult than understanding him." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." - G.K. Chesterton

"Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?" - Erasmus

"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects." - Martin Luther

"Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters." - Francis Goya

"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies." - Daisy Bates

"For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won." - Lucy Maud Montgomery

"...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be." - Dr. R. Joseph

"There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." - Arthur Rubinstein

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." - Ben Okri

"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." - John Steinbeck

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." - Tom Stoppard

"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses." - George Bernard Shaw

"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." - John Churton Collins

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." - Christian Nestell Bovee

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another." - Anatole France

A&E Documentary Special - The BTK Killer Speaks - Part 1