On the eve of the 2008 Summer Olympics, here are a few random thoughts on big visions and great achievements:
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.
Ted Levitt
Small doubt, small enlightenment. Big doubt, big enlightenment.
Zen saying
The problem is never how to get new, innovative ideas into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
Dee Hock
You cannot lead if you do not believe.
C. K. Prahalad
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
Seneca
You've got to find the force inside you.
Joseph Campbell
I know it was wonderful, but I don't know how I did it.
Laurence Olivier, after a brilliant performance of "Othello"
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