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In looking ahead to 2021, I am reminded of this quote: | |
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. | |
― Calvin Coolidge | |
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2015 | Happy New Year — 2015! |
2014 | Happy New Year – 2014! |
2013 | Another New Year’s Thought (In Case It Rains) |
Happy New Year – 2013! | |
2012 | Best Wishes For 2012! |
Where Did You Spend New Year’s Eve? | |
2011 | Happy New Year (2011)!! |
Posts Tagged ‘Persistence’
Facing The New Year
Posted in Included Video, Lyrics, Music and Concerts, Philosophy, Quotes, Song Lyrics And Videos By Others, Videos, tagged Determination, Happy New Year - 2021, I Won't Back Down -- music video, Included Video, Persistence, Philosophy, President Calvin Coolidge, Quotes, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Vevo, YouTube on January 1, 2021| 5 Comments »
The Courage Of Four Skills
Posted in Education, Leadership, Quotes, tagged Belinda Luscombe, Courage, Dr. Brené Brown, Leadership, Persistence, Quotes, Risk Of Failure, Time Magazine, Trust, Values, Vulnerability on February 1, 2019| 2 Comments »
“Courage is a prerequisite for all leadership,” she [Brené Brown] says. And it can be taught. It’s made up of four skills: being vulnerable is the most important, followed by sticking to values, trusting others and persistence. There can be no courage without vulnerability and no vulnerability without the risk of failure. “One of the things that we learned in the research,” she says, “is that people who have the skills to get back up from a fall will engage in smarter risks and more courageous behaviors than people who don’t.” | |
— Brené Brown | |
As quoted by: Belinda Luscombe | |
In the article: “America’s reigning expert on feelings, Brené Brown now takes on leadership“ | |
Appearing in: “Time Magazine“, dtd: 12 November 2018 | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | And Stable Genius, Too |
2017 | And So We Continue |
2016 | Feeling Endangered? |
2015 | One Day |
2014 | Too Bad |
2013 | Unfinished |
2012 | First Steps Along The Path |
2011 | A Small Part Of Future Webs |
Persistence
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Achievement, Goals, Persistence, Philosophy, The Main Thing, Tom Landry on May 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It’s deciding how you will go about achieving it, and staying with that plan. | |
— Tom Landry | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Are You A Loser? |
2016 | Constitution And Conscience |
2015 | Separate, Fearful And Imprisoned |
2014 | Something Worth Making |
2013 | Absolutely |
2012 | Can Do |
2011 | Wise Criticism |
Still Going…
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Courage, Napoléon Bonaparte, Persistence, Philosophy, Strength on January 12, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. | |
― Napoléon Bonaparte | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Great Risk |
2016 | Robbery |
2015 | Humanity Plus |
2014 | Dinner For Two? |
2013 | Exercise For Those Over 50 |
2012 | Tearful Joy!! |
Except When He’s Left | |
Hold Fast
Posted in Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, tagged Dreams, Langston Hughes, Persistence, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Quotes on January 11, 2018| 5 Comments »
Hold fast to dreams, | |
For if dreams die | |
Life is a broken-winged bird, | |
That cannot fly. | |
― Langston Hughes | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | The Only Real Security |
2016 | Time Said |
2015 | If Only Common Sense Were More Common |
2014 | PTI |
2013 | What Now, Then? |
2012 | Big C, Little B |
Duty, Honor, Country | |
Irreplaceable Sparks
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Faith, Hope, Persistence, Philosophy, Quotes on January 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours. | |
― Ayn Rand | |
From her novel: “Atlas Shrugged“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Saving For April 15th |
2016 | First Wish |
2015 | Tracing Shadows |
2014 | One Thing |
2013 | More Is Less |
2012 | The Screw-Up Gene |
Reach Down
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Determination, Muhammad Ali, Persistence, Philosophy, Quotes on October 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. | |
― Muhammad Ali | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | And Women When You Are 59 |
2015 | Intersections, Explorations And Relationships |
2014 | [!(±*=)/≠], [!<] |
Orange October (XI) – Giants Win Game 5 (5 To 0)!!! | |
2013 | Hard To Deserve |
2012 | Cloudy Between Games |
Admiration, n. | |
2011 | One, Two, Three – Blink |
And Second By Second
Posted in Philosophy, Proverbs, Quotes, tagged Afghanistan Proverb, Drops, Persistence, Philosophy, Proverb, Quotes, Rivers on September 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »
A river is made drop by drop. | |
— Afghanistan Proverb | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Bakeries And Coffee Shops |
2015 | Spirit Not Form |
2014 | Sometimes Even Kneeling Seems Insufficient |
2013 | Hobgoblins |
2012 | Got Sleep? |
2011 | Not Another Barren Corner |
The Tide Will Turn
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Harriet Beecher Stowe, My Journal, Optimism, Persistence, Philosophy, Quotes on August 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. | |
— Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Dreamers |
2015 | Three Roars |
2014 | Be R-E-L-E-V-A-N-T |
2013 | Lacking |
2012 | So Small A Thing |
2011 | Is Your Time Valuable? |
How To Be Omnipotent
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Calvin Coolidge, Determination, Education, Genius, Persistence, Philosophy, Quotes, Talent on February 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. | |
— Calvin Coolidge | |
[Emphasis provided by yours truly… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | The Promise Of Future Love |
2013 | Christian, n. |
2012 | Praise |
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood | |
2011 | A Few More Lyrics From The Past |
5 For The Price Of 1 | |
Persistence
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, Persistence, Philosophy, Quotes, Success on August 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. | |
— Malcolm Gladwell | |
From his book: “Outliers“ | |
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