We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.
If you don't execute your ideas, they die.
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn’t this way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers- all depending on what you’re looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
Look for the second right answer.
Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
To doubt has more of faith. . . than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.
Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.