Rock Angel

“USE EMOTIONS AS INFORMATION. Horses use emotion as information to engage surprisingly agile responses to environmental stimuli and relationship challenges:

(a) Feel the emotion in its purest form
(b) Get the message behind the emotion
(c) Change something in response to the message
(d) Go back to grazing. In other words, let the emotion go, and either get back on task or relax, so you can enjoy life fully. Horses don’t hang on to the story, endlessly ruminating over the details of uncomfortable situations

-- from an October 30, 2013 article on the Intelligent Optimist magazine”
― Linda Kohanov, The Power of the Herd: A Nonpredatory Approach to Social Intelligence, Leadership, and Innovation

“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war”
― Winston Churchill

“In 2011, Mark Brooks, a consultant to online-dating companies, published the results of an industry survey titled “How Has Internet Dating Changed Society?” The survey responses, from 39 executives, produced the following conclusions:

“Internet dating has made people more disposable.”

“Internet dating may be partly responsible for a rise in the divorce rates.”

“Low quality, unhappy and unsatisfying marriages are being destroyed as people drift to Internet dating sites.”

“The market is hugely more efficient … People expect to—and this will be increasingly the case over time—access people anywhere, anytime, based on complex search requests … Such a feeling of access affects our pursuit of love … the whole world (versus, say, the city we live in) will, increasingly, feel like the market for our partner(s). Our pickiness will probably increase.”

“Above all, Internet dating has helped people of all ages realize that there’s no need to settle for a mediocre relationship.”

From "A Million First Dates
How online romance is threatening monogamy" in January/February 2013”
― Dan Slater, A Million First Dates: Solving the Puzzle of Online Dating

“Set out to correct the world's wrongs and you'll almost certainly wind up adding to them.

-- from the TV series "Person of Interest", Season 2, episode "Relevance”
― Amanda Segel Jonathan Nolan