"Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go."
American novelist
1914 - 1986
Who are your heroes? Who are the people who inspire you? We all need heroes. Growing up my heroes were baseball players like Bob Gibson and Stan Musial. In college my political heroes were Eugene McCarthy, Senator, and Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader. The poets who were my heroes in those college years were T. S. Elliot, Arthur Rimbaud and Theodore Roethke. When I got into business, my hero was Tom Peters. I modeled my speaking style after his. Harry S. Truman, 33rd President, is another of my heroes. Who are your heroes? Who has inspired you? Heroes are important because they role-model what we want to be. They push us to go farther than we think possible.
