Commitment's Magic

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
--William Hutchinson Murray
(often mistakenly attributed to Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

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Power to Know

“Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.”
--Max Horkheimer

Greatly Created

“No great thing is created suddenly.”
--Epictetus

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Fight Bureaucracy

“Successful organizations stay successful by fighting off their instinct to support the creation of a bureaucracy.”
--Seth Godin

A New System

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the Initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new.”
--Niccolo Machiavelli

Destructive Creation

“Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction.”
--Pablo Picasso