“With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.” PeopleThinkingKindHelpingGamesExistenceGrowingRateSpeedCertaintyFasterTechnologicalCatchingCatching UpRate Of Change Author:Gail Sheehy
“Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.” PeopleGoalCrimeInformationPersonalityDrugSpeedCommitRationalCommandAlternativesPanicPrescriptionsOur WordsDissemination Author:Gail Sheehy
“Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.” PeopleWantLeadershipLeaderPossibilityRegardAweFollowersFlowering Author:Gail Sheehy
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.” PeopleGivingShouldMayMeanRealValuesCoursesLostGrowthStepsSecuritySafeDemandGiving UpOppositesPatternsSurrenderFamiliarTemporaryNew Words Author:Gail Sheehy
“Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.” PeopleSelfEnoughSuccessfulRichConceptsResponsibleSelf RespectGood EnoughAwardsRespect YourselfI Respect You Author:Gail Sheehy
“According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.” PeopleShouldWellsFactsAgeYoungCoursesFindingsResearchMajorityMythologyWell BeingConsistentlyPrevailing Author:Gail Sheehy
