Wish I Could Take That Back

Just an "X" on a street?

My son is reading through The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.  As he reads, he shares with me what he is learning from his reading.  The items below attracted his attention:

TOP 10  ALL-TIME STUPID QUOTES;

1. "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." Kenneth Olsen, President and Founder of Digital Equipment, 1977
2. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."  Marshall Ferdinand Foch, French Military Strategist and Future World War I Commander in 1911
3. "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." De. Lee De Forest, inventor of the audio tube and Father of radio...Feb. 25, 1967
4. "Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months.  People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." Darryl Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946
5. "We don't like their sound.  Groups of guitars are on the way out." Decca Records, rejecting the Beatles in 1962
6. "For the majority of people , the use of tobacco has a beneficial effect."  Dr. Ian MacDonald, Los Angeles Surgeon, as quoted to Newsweek, Nov. 18, 1969
7. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us." Western Union Internal Memo, 1876
8. "The earth is the center of the universe." Ptolemy the Great Egyptian Astronomer in the Second Century
9. "Nothing of importance happened today." Written by King George III of England on July 4, 1776
10. "Everything that can be invented has been invented."  Charles H. Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, 1899

Do you have something you have said that you wish you could take back?  Well, we all do.  How has a change in perception helped to make your words fall to the ground?  Have you had a paradigm shift lately?

PARADIGM SHIFT....I have been going through paradigm shifts generating new viewpoints on different issues in life and, therefore, taking myself out of a constrained box...that I alone had put myself in. "Paradigms are like glasses.  When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescriptions." (Sean Covey*)

Now back to the "X" on the street....is this just another building with windows?  If I told you that these two spots are in downtown Dallas and the "X" was placed on that street in 1963, would your thoughts of that "X" change?  Now, further information....the "X" marks the spot where President Kennedy was shot.


For we know in part and prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, that which is part will disappear. I Corn. 13:9-10

 Yea! for new perspectives and paradigm shifts which correct sight for viewing our lives.  Only God can write the prescription for clear vision for each of us....my prescription won't work on your eyes.  A different point of view or more information will allow me to correct what I say and how I view my situation.


Share a funny thing you have said that you wish you could now take back! 


One that I wish I could take back, "Oh, I will never use all those things on that phone!"

*I do not endorse the religious beliefs of the Covey writers, I do, however. glean the truth  given for different disciplines  presented in their writings.