¶ Success (1)
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Success:
"…How vain we are when man thinks of himself as being responsible for his extraordinary success. We talk in the Americas of being very worthy and that we’ve won our way to the top of the world, and that other people over here are not so worthy. I don’t think that man has had much to do with the relative success.
"In the first place, the success starts with the fact that we are extraordinarily chemically balanced and there is some power in the Universe where the energy conditions are such that we exist at all. That we happened to be here-- we had nothing to do with that!
“Men have been taught that there is not enough to go around and that it is you or me. I do observe the struggling going on, not only in politics but in Universities: who is going to come out on top? And I would say that essentially men have been working against other men. If they are successful it is not because they have been working together. From time to time they have meetings, and they say, ‘Let’s work together,’ and this is fairly specious.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #1, pp.28-29, 1 Jul’62
