"I started Wetlands with two untapped passions of mine in mind," he told The New York Times in 1995.
Benjamin, playing with previously untapped aggressiveness and passion, had the strongest game of his young career Friday night to help lead the Clippers to a 125-120 win over the New Jersey Nets before 10,573 fans at the Meadowlands Arena.
As the world grows "flat," as people in developing countries become better educated, as jobs become more competitive worldwide, and...as China becomes the largest English-speaking country in the world, it's time for unemployed Americans to tap into an untapped resource: their inner passion.
He recalled drawing circles on a napkin showing their passions, the untapped opportunities, and what the team could be "best in the world at".
Their passion, creativity and intelligence otherwise untapped, they funnelled it into the city's music scene.
In the persona that he played in Frank Tashlin's movies of the mid-fifties, he's the original American pop-culture vulture, a blithering genius obsessed with movies (in "Hollywood or Bust") and comic books (in "Artists and Models"), a neoclassicist in blind love whose passion is imbued with an untapped creative streak.
The story is a tonic against despair: when a cherished institution goes under, there's often the impetus to start something up in its wake, and what replaces it is sometimes even better than what was lost if for no other reason than that the sense of loss galvanizes passions and energies that hitherto lay untapped.
Brands that recognize this untapped audience and align with their values and passions will be championed.
As MySpace exec's explained to me, they went looking under the hood and found a untapped goldmine of member generated tastes, picks and passions.
