Showed up on my "Quotes of the Day" block on Google today:

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life 
that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal 
itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

  - Arnold Toynbee

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Showed up on my "Quotes of the Day" block on Google today:
> 
> It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life 
> that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal 
> itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

I knew it!  Obama wants to be U.N. Secretary-General!

Regards,
John

(Seriously, he's the first U.S. President with a significant chance of 
getting the job.)

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On Fri, 08 May 2009 07:36:50 -0400, John VanSickle wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Showed up on my "Quotes of the Day" block on Google today:
>> 
>> It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life
>> that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that
>> goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
> 
> I knew it!  Obama wants to be U.N. Secretary-General!

LOL

> (Seriously, he's the first U.S. President with a significant chance of
> getting the job.)

Good point, of course we'll have to see how the next few years go.  I'm 
hoping he does well, but the first 100-ish days are often not much of an 
indicator.

Jim

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On 5/8/2009 8:25 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> Good point, of course we'll have to see how the next few years go.  I'm
> hoping he does well, but the first 100-ish days are often not much of an
> indicator.

To me, the fact that everyone pays so much attention to the first 100 
days is indicative of a great many of our society's ills...

-- 
...Chambers
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Chambers wrote:
> To me, the fact that everyone pays so much attention to the first 100 
> days is indicative of a great many of our society's ills...

I think part of that is people asking "how much did he lie to get elected?" 
The other half is the society's inability to say "I don't know", so anything 
not accomplished in the first 100 days is a sign of failure rather than a 
sign of it being only 100 days.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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On 9-5-2009 19:14, Darren New wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> To me, the fact that everyone pays so much attention to the first 100 
>> days is indicative of a great many of our society's ills...
> 
> I think part of that is people asking "how much did he lie to get 
> elected?" The other half is the society's inability to say "I don't 
> know", so anything not accomplished in the first 100 days is a sign of 
> failure rather than a sign of it being only 100 days.

I though there was also some sort of tradition that the losing party 
should not attack frontally in that period.

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On Sat, 09 May 2009 09:58:48 -0700, Chambers wrote:

> On 5/8/2009 8:25 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Good point, of course we'll have to see how the next few years go.  I'm
>> hoping he does well, but the first 100-ish days are often not much of
>> an indicator.
> 
> To me, the fact that everyone pays so much attention to the first 100
> days is indicative of a great many of our society's ills...

The "instant fix syndrome", yeah, agreed there.

Jim

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andrel wrote:
> I though there was also some sort of tradition that the losing party 
> should not attack frontally in that period.

Good luck with that. I'd be happy if the losing party wasn't actively 
advocating and trying to cause the winning party to screw up my life more. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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On Sat, 09 May 2009 22:58:29 +0200, andrel wrote:

> On 9-5-2009 19:14, Darren New wrote:
>> Chambers wrote:
>>> To me, the fact that everyone pays so much attention to the first 100
>>> days is indicative of a great many of our society's ills...
>> 
>> I think part of that is people asking "how much did he lie to get
>> elected?" The other half is the society's inability to say "I don't
>> know", so anything not accomplished in the first 100 days is a sign of
>> failure rather than a sign of it being only 100 days.
> 
> I though there was also some sort of tradition that the losing party
> should not attack frontally in that period.

Nope, though arguably in the US the Republican party is doing as much if 
not more in attacking other parts of their own party as attacking the 
opposition.

Jim

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