“I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.” PeopleYearsYoungDifferencesSuccessfulFiveGenerationsWorstTwentiesFive YearsBeing SuccessfulWorst ThingsTwenty FiveQualitativeOlder Generation Author:Cornel West
“I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingCertainParentWomenClassSuccessfulWifeGenerationsMovementMinesParticularBenefitsCookingFeministFedsGood FriendReapSuccessful BusinessBlahFeminist MovementGreat WifeCooking Classes Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.” PeopleWellsKindStatesParentSuccessfulGenerationsEconomicProductsConstantInsecurityMy SisterSuccessful PeopleGreat DepressionInsecurity And Fear Author:Ben Stein
“The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.” FeelsPersonsActionIndividualSuccessfulGenerationsModernCommittedBeing SuccessfulMotto Author:Alexander Lowen
“Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers were the key parent in the upbringing of the next generation, because moral training, not emotional sensitivity, was thought to be central to successful child-rearing. Mothers were thought to corrupt their little ones with too much affection and not enough stern training.” ChildrenLittlesImportantEnoughPlayMotherNextFatherParentMoralRolesSuccessfulToo MuchGenerationsEconomicCenturyEmotionalKeysTrainingAffectionSensitivityNext GenerationUpbringingChild Rearing Author:Sandra Scarr
“A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.” WorldMemoriesLeaderSuccessfulGenerationsAirSourceCostProductionsConversionErasFuelMapsMultipleElectricityCoalCleanersNew EraOntarioBiomass Author:Bob Chiarelli