Monday, February 16, 2009

G.B.S.

In his play, “Mrs. Warren’s Profession,” George Bernard Shaw wrote, “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people that get and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

It doesn’t require a great saltation of intelligence to understand that this means we should have had enough of blaming inability, lack of achievement, and unacceptable performance on anything other than the individual.

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