Colin D Gordon

“I’m a slow walker, but I never walk backwards”. This remark. attributed to Abraham Lincoln, US President from 1861 – 1865, is generally regarded as reflecting his determination never to retreat or give up once he’d made a decision (such as abolishing slavery). One of his biographers, Albert Kaplan, has described how Lincoln moved around […]

“Start doing things you think you cannot do”. The main purpose of this “powerful exhortation” by Eleanor Roosevelt, the US First Lady from 1933 – 1945 (according to the Socratic Method website) was to encourage individuals to rise above their self-imposed limitations. It seems unlikely nonetheless that, during her twelve-year resídence in the White House, […]