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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.

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

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

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Arundhati Roy

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

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

– Carl Rogers

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

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

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

– Mae West

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Henry David Thoreau

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill