What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
Jeff BezosRead
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
Interpretation
Embracing risk is essential for growth and change.
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking risks and stepping outside of familiar surroundings in order to achieve personal and professional growth. It suggests that remaining in our comfort zones can hinder our progress and that true advancement often comes from being willing to face failure and explore new opportunities.
In practice
During a motivational speech about innovation and progress in business.
What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'
Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.
If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.
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