
“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII
“The future will be what we choose to build.”
"The Future is What We Choose to Make", World Maker Faire, New York (September 2013) http://fora.tv/2013/09/21/the_future_is_what_we_choose_to_make
Context: We want to make things. We want to make things with our hands. We crave it. It sparks something in us, feeds our urge to create. That's why were here.
The future will be what we choose to build. We choose to build what we believe in. It's always been that way. A small group of people choose to believe in something, and then they make it so. In that order. They choose to believe in something, and then they make it so. That's the power of makers — the power to choose a new future, by believing, and making.
As quoted in Freedom in the World: Political Rights & Civil Liberties, 1990-1991 https://web.archive.org/web/20180917224837/https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/Freedom_in_the_World_1990-1991_complete_book.pdf (1991), New York: Freedom House, p. 16
1990s
Source: Success! (1977), p. 145
Context: Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. You may earn a good living, you may have a safe career, but you will never be a success. Find out what you enjoy doing, and your chances of succeeding will be dramatically better. We play the game every day, sometimes without even recognizing that we're doing it. We compete with other people, or other teams, or other companies, not only because it is essential to business survival, but because we frankly enjoy competition. It's fun to be in the game, and it's even more fun to win.
“Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”
Act I
Peter Pan (1904)
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
“Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.”
Speech to the Good-will Foundation (9 March 1991)
1990s