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Morley Winograd + Michael D. Hais, authors, "Millennial Momentum"

COLUMN = GENERATIONS

Millennial experts Morley Winograd and Michael Hais have had careers that include entertainment and media market research (Frank N. Magid Associates), a stint in the White House (Clinton-Gore second term), technology and communications (AT&T), academia (USC’s Marshall School of Business and the University of Detroit) and—where it all began for Mike & Morley—Michigan politics (polling and Democratic Party Chairman, respectively).

They teamed in 2007 to write the first of two highly reviewed books on Millennials. Today, they speak, consult and write on how Millennials are remaking every aspect of American life: entertainment, lifestyles, leadership, work, technology, government, politics, education and community.

Their first book, Millennial Makeover, correctly predicted Barack Obama’s 2008 win through his creative engagement of Millennials, especially with social media. The toughest reviewer at The New York Times named it one of her 10 favorite books of the year.

Their 2011 book, Millennial Momentum, examines how Millennials are remaking every aspect of American life: entertainment, lifestyles, leadership, work, technology government, politics, education, and community.

Based in Los Angeles, Mike & Morley are also on-air pundits, monthly commentators on America’s changing demographics for the National Journal and frequent contributors to The Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post and New Geography.

Click here to read their GENERATIONS column.

And click here to read futurist Chris Carbone’s review of Millennial Momentum.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist