Verlyn Klinkenborg:

Driving is the cultural anomaly of our moment.

Peter Maass:

It little matters whether we fill our tanks at BP or Exxon stations.

What matters is that we visit gas stations less often.

Klinkenborg:

Every now and then I meet someone in Manhattan who has never driven a car.

I used to wonder at such people, but more and more I wonder at myself.

William Deresiewicz:

For too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going.

Who can answer questions, but don't know how to ask them.

Who can fulfill goals, but don't know how to set them.

Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they're worth doing in the first place.

What we have now are the greatest technocrats the world has ever seen.

What we don't have are leaders.

Decius:

It's important to understand that it isn't Congress that must change -- it is us.

Clay Shirky:

Nothing will work, but everything might.

Rebecca Brock:

People say to me, "Whatever it takes."

I tell them, It's going to take everything.

The Cultural Anomaly Of Our Moment