Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Interpretation
People often discuss problems but rarely take action to solve them.
This quote highlights the common tendency of people to engage in idle chatter about issues that concern them, such as the weather, without taking any concrete steps to address those issues. It suggests that discussion alone is insufficient and emphasizes the need for proactive engagement and action in order to effect real change.
In practice
In a team meeting discussing climate change initiatives.
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured - especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.
You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
The passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs, from greater understanding of ourselves and our world to answers about what to do.
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs
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