Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein
Who knew Einstein was a comedian, too?
Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.
Sadje, at Keep It Alive, tagged me for the latest round of Rory’s 3-2-1 Quote Me! prompt. The topic for this prompt is TRUTH.
Here are the rules for this prompt.
So thank you Sadje.
Now here are my two quotes:
American columnist Cal Thomas
Albert Einstein
Now I’m supposed to tag three bloggers, but you know what? I’m not going to tag three bloggers. I’m going to tag all bloggers to post two quotes on “truth.”
And that’s the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me blog.
Albert Einstein
Einstein’s corollary:
Both of these quotes from Albert Einstein are very similar to another quote I used for a previous One-Liner Wednesday post. That quote, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten,” is also widely attributed to Einstein, but according to my research, it was originally put forth by Jessie Potter, an educator and counselor on family relationships and human sexuality.
The point is, in all three of these quotes, that if you want to achieve a different result, you need to do things in a different way. Thinking like you’ve always thought, doing what you’ve always done, and acting like you’ve always acted will not get you anything different from what you’ve been getting. And if that’s your objective — to get a different outcome — then same ol’ same ol’ just doesn’t cut it.
Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten.”Jessie Potter
That was the advice of Jessie Potter, an educator and counselor on family relationships and human sexuality. The context of his quote was about sex and love. He was asserting that change is needed in the American way of growing up, falling in love, raising a family, and growing old.
Similar statements have been attributed to a number of people, from Henry Ford to Tony Robbins and even to Albert Einstein, who also expressed a similar sentiment when he said:
Albert Einstein is also broadly credited with saying that:
And Russian author Leo Tolstoy said:
All four of these quotes are about change. Changing the way you think, the way you act, and what you do. Because change is progress and failure to change is stagnation.
I promised myself I wasn’t going to go political in this post, but oh well. Conservatives generally don’t like change. They prefer to keep things the way they are — or the way they were, you know, like they used to be (“Make America Great Again”).
They don’t particularly like societal changes. They don’t embrace changing demographics. They deny climate change. They want the U.S. Constitution to be interpreted just as it was written around 230 years ago, as if time has stood still since 1787.
But change is as inevitable as the sunrise and the tides. And remember, if we fail to change, we stagnate.
Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.
When I saw this picture posted on Teresa’s Worth a Thousand Words photo prompt today, I couldn’t help but think of all of the funny, bogus Albert Einstein memes floating all around the internet these days.
Such as these:
This, That, and the Other 