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Friday, May 28, 2004

 

There is a fine line between a healthy sense of one's abilities and arrogance. If you are repeatedly successful, there is a temptation to believe that you have found the "success formula" and are no longer subject to human fallibility. This is devastating to the creative process; in a world that is continually changing, every right idea or strategy eventually becomes the wrong one. With an arrogant attitude, you cease paying attention to differing points of view and information that contradicts your beliefs. You screen out the "boos" and amplify the "hurrahs". You believe that you're not subject to the same constraints as others.

Roger Von Oech
Expect the Unexpected

Thursday, May 27, 2004

 

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

 

Terrorism thrives where globalization has yet to extend itself in any meaningful way, because countries that lack widespread interactions with the outside world (beyond just pumping oil) are either failed states or brutally repressive regimes, both of which generate desperate young men seeking political change through violence. You want to dry up global terror? Make globalization truly global.

Thomas Barnett
Washington Post

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

 

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Archibald Macleish

Monday, May 24, 2004

 

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

Randy Nelson
Pixar University