If You Have Some Respect For People

Some People May Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them. Very Few Have Excellence Thrust Upon Them. They Achieve It. They Do Not Achieve It Unwittingly, By “doin' What Comes Naturally”; And They Don't Stumble Into It In The Course Of Amusing Themselves. All Excellence Involves Discipline And Tenacity Of Purpose.

I Think That All Human Systems Require Continuous Renewal. They Rigidify. They Get Stuff In The Joints. They Forget What They Cared About. The Forces Against It Are Nostalgia And The Enormous Appeal Of Having Things The Way They Always Have Been, Appeals To A Supposedly Happy Past. But We've Got To Move On.

All Of Us Celebrate Our Values In Our Behavior.

The Creative Individual Has The Capacity To Free Himself From The Web Of Social Pressures In Which The Rest Of Us Are Caught. He Is Capable Of Questioning The Assumptions That The Rest Of Us Accept.

Josh Billings Said, It Is Not Only The Most Difficult Thing To Know Oneself, But The Most Inconvenient One, Too. Human Beings Have Always Employed An Enormous Variety Of Clever Devices For Running Away From Themselves, And The Modern World Is Particularly Rich In Such Stratagems.