April 28, 2010
By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Pacific Daily News
Thought is the ancestor of every action, as American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson said. Imagination is the beginning of creation, according to playwright George Bernard Shaw. Physicist Albert Einstein echoed: "Imagination is more important than knowledge."To repeat what I have written for years in this space -- and repetition is not without importance for many -- first, you imagine what you desire (a goal), and you believe it is reachable, then you create a will to reach it, and finally you take action to attain it. American engineer Charles F. Kettering said, "Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail." What emerges is change.
Any individual can contribute to bringing about change. Recall Japanese poet Ryunosuke Satoro, who said: "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." There are many heroes -- and "sheroes" -- in unsung roles who help bring change.
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