“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
Shunryo Suzuki, zen master
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
John Maynard Keynes
“Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions.”
Allen Ginsberg
In a speech at Harvard University in 1943 Winston Churchill observed that “the empires of the future will be empires of the mind.” He might have added that the battles of the future will be battles for talent. To be sure, the old battles for natural resources are still with us. But they are being supplemented by new ones for talent—not just among companies (which are competing for “human resources”) but also among countries (which fret about the “balance of brains” as well as the “balance of power”).
Economist.com
