Career Change
William Matthews
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. ~William Matthews
Nietzche
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Nietzsche
Albert Einstein
How strange is the lot of us mortals. Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. ~Albert Einstein
Geraldine 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 Laybourne, former Pres. of cable TV at ABC/Walt Disney
Gerald Levin
I want my identity back. I don’t want to be known as the CEO of AOL Time Warner . . . I’m my own person. I have strong moral convictions. I’m not just a suit. I want poetry back in my life. ~Gerald Levin
Karamozov Brothers
Remember, If you don’t know where you’re going, it doesn’t matter how you get there. ~The Flying Karamozov Brothers
Arnold Toynbee
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. ~Arnold Toynbee
Joseph Campbell
A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: “As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.” ~Joseph Campbell