摘錄Adventures of a Bystander

　　Bucky Fuller and Marshall McLuhan exemplify to me the importance of being single-minded. The single-minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers. The rest, the ones like me, may have more fun; but they fritter themselves away. The Fullers and the McLuhans carry out a "mission"; the rest of us have "interests." Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission. Bucky spent forty years in the wilderness, without even the Children of Israel to follow him. Yet he never wavered in his dedication to his vision. McLuhan spent twentyfive years chasing his vision until it captured him. He too never wavered. And when their time came, both had impact.

　　富勒和麥克魯漢體現了專心一志的重要性，只有像偏執狂般一心一意地追求，才能真正有所成就。其他的人，就像我一樣，或許生活多采多姿，卻白白揮霍掉青春。像富勒和麥克魯漢這樣的人，才可能讓他們的使命成真；而其他的我們卻興趣太多、心有旁騖。我後來學到，要有成就，必須在使命感的驅使下「從一而終」，把精力投注在一件事情上。富勒在荒野上待了四十年，連一個追隨者都沒有，然而他還是堅定地為自己的願景貢獻一切。麥克魯漢花了二十五年的時間，追隨他的願景，從不曾退縮。因此當時機成熟時，他們都造成相當大的影響。

　　The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with multiple interests instead of one single mission, are certain to fail and to have no impact at all.

　　偏執狂不一定能夠成功，大多數像這樣的人，留下的只是荒漠中的白骨。但其他像我們這樣有很多興趣，卻沒有單一使命的人，則注定會失敗，而且對這個世界一點影響力都沒有。


　　　　　　　　--Peter F. Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander, page255