"Engineering didn't take to me. And what..." - Quote by Colin Powell
Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.
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“Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes”
“What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful”
“We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.”
More on Personal Journey
“My giant goes with me wherever I go.”
“I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.”
“In my country we go to prison first and then become President.”
More on Self Discovery
“We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.”
“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.”
“Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.”