Source: The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981), p. 148-149
“The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.”
Futurewise (1998)
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As quoted in Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness (2000) by Jordan S. Metzger, p. 9
Variant: The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Source: The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997), Chapter 10, “Lifetimes of Chance” (p. 188)
Source: "Attribution theory and research." 1980, p. 489
Autobiographical sketch (1970), at Nobelprize.org http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-autobio.html