Had to share this. The following quote was uttered in a meeting I just attended by a very senior member of a global PR firm.

“I won’t allow my learning to be disrupted by my education.”

The declaration was simply beautiful in scope, delivery, and effectiveness. It was genuinely precise just as much as generically ambiguous. It was served with a deprecative humbled tone yet resonated (and then re-resonated by a quick survey of faces) as a stern judgement of the group en masse. Very rarely does a single comment provide such quiet dominance as to change the tone and even the composition and flow of a group conversation that had, up until that time, been terse and arrogantly competitive. As a sidenote, if you’ve ever been involved in a meeting populated by Ph.Ds and assorted other eggheads who specialize in Computational Linguistics, Sociology, and/or Market Intelligence, you intuitively understand the description of “terse and arrogantly competitive”.

The only thing better would have been if this wise sage had leveraged the utility of a Object-Subject-Verb word order. At that point I would’ve probably asked for his autograph.

Yoda is alive. He lives in NYC and likes fly-fishing as well as camping.