Career Change
Abraham Lincoln
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. ~Abraham Lincoln
Ray Bradbury
You’ve got to jump off cliffs, all the time, and build your wings on the way down. ~Ray Bradbury
John Lennon
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that . . . Accept that it’s unknown, and it’s plain sailing. ~John Lennon
Geraldine B. Laybourne
I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn’t what I was about, so I left. ~ Geraldine B. Laybourne, resigned as President of cable TV operations for ABC & Walt Disney Co., now with Oxygen Media
Benjamin R. Barber
I went into the academic world under the illusion that it was a place where people cared passionately about ideas, about teaching, about discourse, about reflecting critically. What I discovered was a world of small-minded, partisan professionals, many of whom where there because they couldn’t figure out what else to do. So I created a life inside the academy that reflected the life I wanted to lead.
~ Benjamin R. Barber, author of “Jihad Vs McWorld”
Teddy Roosevelt
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
~ Teddy Roosevelt