Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz
US (German-born) general & politician (1829 - 1906)
This article gets a person to think. So, in keeping with the “theme” of my blog, I decided to include this as a post.
Here’s my opinion of the “summation” of the article:
Independent thought is not popular — it is absolutely, pricelessly, rare. Nothing you read about in the papers or see on the television is independent. Whatever we take in from the popular media is regurgitated conventional knowledge. There is nothing independent about most of the world.
Read more below.
The greatest discovery of my age is that men can change their circumstances by changing the attitude of their mind.
William James (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist and philosopher
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigor and strength.
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 ), Author of ‘Self Help’
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), English-born U.S. labor leader.
“If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow”.
Stephen R. Covey
author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, founder of the Covey Leadership Center
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