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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.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

– Abraham Lincoln

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– John Quincy Adams

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

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

– Hindu Proverb

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Steven Schussler

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

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

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

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

– Francesca Reigle

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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

– Marcel Proust

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

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

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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 gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

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

– Steven Schussler