"[T]he real subject of discovery is not novelty but
permanence. Innovation is thus neither liberal nor conservative.
"At heart it is
decidedly more primitive. It belongs to the poet and the hero."
Tocqueville said that Americans, in comparison to Europeans,
were practical rather than poetic and believed in themselves more than in
heroes.
Yet among societies of people in recorded human history, Americans are
among the very most innovative and entrepreneurial.
Americans see doing your best in the daily little things as
true heroism. This is a profoundly poetic and moving concept.
Social Leader Daily by Oliver DeMille
