Today Condoleezza Rice spoke at BYU and it was very inspiring to me. Here are my notes. I hope you enjoy them:
BYU Forum
1/13/11
-Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives (new book she wrote).
-If you’re constantly focused on today’s problems, you’ll never be able to get the long term view.
-4 pictures of former Secretaries of State she would keep-one William Seward, bought Alaska for $7 million-he was mocked for buying that “ice box” to always remind her that, “Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same.”
-Failing nations are the problem and we cannot abandon them
-Every dictator fears the moment their people no longer fear them.
-Romanian leader, “LIAR”
-Creativity and innovation remain the ownership of the United States
-Our biggest potential enemy is ourselves if we do not:
-reaffirm the private sector
-respect the immigrant
-believe in the American Dream
-say, “It does not matter where you’ve come from, it only matters where you’re going”
-Our biggest threat today is the disastrous state of our K-12 educational system
-We are not held together as Americans by any one faith, race, culture, etc. We are held together as Americans by the idea and promise of The American Dream
-We have been given the gift of the transformative power of Education
-What seems impossible is often inevitable
-The essence of being human is to integrate what we know with what might be (faith)
-Keep your optimism
-Find your passion! Worlds open up to you that you never thought possible when you find your passion.
-I am more fulfilled by overcoming something that is hard for me to do than by doing something that comes easy to me.
2 comments:
was she talking about the current romanian leader, or the dictator they had 15 years ago, Caucescu? (sp?)
oh, and I'd love your opinion...I definitely think there needs to be a change in our education system but I'm not quite sure what. (My strongest feeling is that the change first needs to start in the home in the way kids are being raised this generation.) What's your opinion? I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts on it.
Here are mine
History will not look at you the same way the present looks at you. History will look at the way things play out over time.
After September 11, every day was September 12
United States helps failed and failing states heal.
One old lady yells liar
Every dictator fears the moment when their people no longer fear them.
Creativity and innovation are the driving force of the united states
The enemy of the United States is the United States who no longer believes in itself
The American Dream is still admired by the rest of the world.
The gift of the transformative power of education
Optimism overcomes aggrievement and entitlement, which robs you of the ability to control your own life.
Listen to those who don't see the world as it is, but see the world as it should be.
P.S. I wish she would run for president
P.S.S. I love that you have a pregnancy meter that compares the baby to fruit.
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