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One Of My Big Milestones Came When I Turned Forty And Promised Myself To Stop Worrying About All The Things I Thought I Might Do But Never Really Would. I Was Very Relieved When I Realized That You Can Actually Complete A Project By Dropping It. That's How I "completed" Learning To Cook And Learning German, Becoming A Good Skier, And A List Of Other Things Too Long To Recite!

Naysayers Have Little Power Over Us - Unless We Give It To Them.

What Won't Work - What Can't Work - Is To Act Like The Last Years Never Happened, And That The Survival Of The [mass Media] Industry Will Be Found By Hiding Content Behind Walled Gardens. Instead Of Sticking Their Finger In The Dike, Trying To Hold Back The Flow Of Innovation, Companies Need To Ride The Rapids Of Progress And Seize The Opportunities It Provides.

Whether We Regard The Women's Liberation Movement As A Serious Threat, A Passing Convulsion, Or A Fashionable Idiocy, It Is A Movement That Mounts An Attack On Practically Everything That Women Value Today And Introduces The Language And Sentiments Of Political Confrontation Into The Area Of Personal Relationships.

There Is A Purpose To Our Lives, Even If It Is Sometimes Hidden From Us, And Even If The Biggest Turning Points And Heartbreaks Only Make Sense As We Look Back, Rather Than As We Are Experiencing Them. So We Might As Well Live Life As If - As The Poet Rumi Put It - Everything Is Rigged In Our Favor.