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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.

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

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

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

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

– William Butler Yeats

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

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

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

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Henry Miller

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

– Hindu Proverb

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

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

– Corita Kent

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

– Lao Tzu

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

– Booker T. Washington

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett