• Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?

    Colin Powell: Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams.  Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams.  Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward.  They kill progress.  How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?
    Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership”, Harper Collins