Posted 04 June 2009 - 07:41 PM
Not really. Where I'm going I'll be surrounded by the worst kind of Civil Servant; ambitious ones. One of the most damning things one can say, in my department at least, about a colleague is that he/she "wants to get ahead" These people are never any good at their actual jobs and have a tendency to screw things up and then leave it to us competent people to fix, whilst they gad about doing pointless things to get themselves noticed by the bosses. And given what we do, that's a recipe for really messiing up people's lives.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. … So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. Bertrand Russell