“Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.” WayLooksLeaderHappeningsInstitutionsExtraordinaryInitiativeSparkling Author:Don Tapscott
“The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.” PeopleWayBrokenTraditionInstitutionsSenate Author:Tom Udall
“This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.” WayHumansStruggleOfficeTestsInstitutionsWay To Live Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
“There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.” PeopleWayShouldYearsEyeGamesUnderstandingNumbersEmotionalFootballIntellectualBaseballAccountsInstitutionsSacredDistanceProfitFactorsFifteenVaryProgressionPedestalPastimeFifteen YearsSmall NumbersMystiquePro Football Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows to make and unmake, produce and consume - a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment. The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.” WayBelieveActionChoicesI BelieveTechnologySupportEnvironmentStyleProduceDependsIndependentInstitutionsLifestyleIdeologyDevelopingRelatedStationsPollutionConsumptionConsumerismSpontaneousDesirableMaintainingOverconsumptionOur ChoicesBe Spontaneous Author:Ivan Illich