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“A lesson in bringing about true changes of mind and heart comes from a Japanese functionary. By day, he crunched numbers that showed his country was approaching imminent energy crisis and helped to craft policy. By night, he weaved a novel in which a bureaucrat-hero helps see the country through to new energy sources. When the crisis came faster than he expected, he actually put the novel away because he did not want to make the burden of his countrymen worse. When the short-term crisis passed, he published his novel. It's phenomenal and well-timed success fueled the vision that inspired difficult change and maintained a sense of urgency.”
― Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
― Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
“An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.”
― Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
― Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
“We have got to find a a new plan of attacking it. Something that will show clearly not only the magnitude of the industries and commercial developments, and the changes they have brought in various parts of the country, but something which will make clear the great principles by which industrial leaders are combining and controlling these resources. ”
― Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
― Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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