Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Dream, Choose, Commit, Begin ... Now!

Sage advice for all of us who have chance upon a great idea ....

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. WHATEVER YOU CAN DO, OR DREAM YOU CAN DO, BEGIN IT. BOLDNESS HAS GENIUS, POWER AND MAGIC IN IT, BEGIN IT NOW."

- By William Hutchinson Murray (1913-1996), writing in his 1951 book The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, quoting the famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe couplet at the end