Most kids just follow the cycle. My grandfather didn't finish high school. My father didn't, and I didn't. But you can break the cycle. You can have a successful marriage and be a good father.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of breaking generational patterns to create a positive future.
In this quote, Eric D. Thomas highlights the cycle of educational and familial struggles that can perpetuate through generations. He emphasizes that despite his family's history of not completing high school, individuals have the power to break this cycle and redefine their future, particularly in terms of relationships and personal success.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
Bottom line, I removed myself from the victim mentality and took control of my life. I'm not just going to take responsibility for the success in my life - I'm going to take responsibility for the failures in my life. When you're willing to accept that you're the problem, you immediately become the solution.
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
Today's a great day to change a life. Starting with yours.
How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?
As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina.
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
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