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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
- Branch Rickey, US baseball player, 1881-1965
- Branch Rickey, US baseball player, 1881-1965
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NAIL IN THE FENCE
Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.
(Most importantly the last sentence)
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.
>His
father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.
Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control hi anger,the number of nails hammered daily gradually
dwindled down.
He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into
the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all.
He told his father about it and the father
suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able
to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.
He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how
manytimes you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there.
" A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and
encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise
and they always want to open their hearts to us."
Thanx you all for being a friend and I am sorry for 'having left so many holes'
Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.
(Most importantly the last sentence)
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.
>His
father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.
Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control hi anger,the number of nails hammered daily gradually
dwindled down.
He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into
the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all.
He told his father about it and the father
suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able
to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.
He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how
manytimes you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there.
" A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and
encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise
and they always want to open their hearts to us."
Thanx you all for being a friend and I am sorry for 'having left so many holes'
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Problems are:
P-Purposeful
R-Roadblocks
O-Offering
B-Beneficial
L-Lessons to
E-Enhance
M-Mental
S-Strength
....Inner strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you are free from problems
.So, Smile through those rough times 'cause fair times are never too far behind...Good luck to everyone.
P-Purposeful
R-Roadblocks
O-Offering
B-Beneficial
L-Lessons to
E-Enhance
M-Mental
S-Strength
....Inner strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you are free from problems
.So, Smile through those rough times 'cause fair times are never too far behind...Good luck to everyone. 
D
dentistbangs
hi guys i am new to this site 
and i feel great 
that there are so many people out there to help me ,keep it up .
i am new to this site and i feel great that there are so many people out there to help me ,keep it up .- Joined
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Hope is not a strategy
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Skill is knowing how to do it.
Virtue is doing it."
If you read something in a book twice, carefully, and you still dont understand it, it is the authors fault not yours.
Core Values
1. Integrity First
2. Service before self
3. Excellence in all we do.
My soul to God,
My life to my Nation,
My heart to my Lady,
My honor to myself.
Life lessons from Noahs Ark:
1) Don?t miss the boat
2) Remember, we are all in the same boat
3) Plan ahead, it wasn?t raining when they built the Ark.
4) Stay fit, when you are 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
5) Don?t listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
6) Build your future on higher ground.
7) For safety?s sake, travel in pairs
8) Speed isn?t always an advantage, The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
9) When you are stressed, float awhile.
10) Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
11) No matter how bad the storm, there?s a rainbow waiting on the other side.
I have to remember the universal six phases of every project:
1) Excitement - We can do this thing!!!
2) Exhultation - Boy! if we do this and that we'll get this and acomplish that!
3) Reality- Hey, this thing has problems and it takes work and cooperation- Why isnt the world revolving around us and this project?
4) Search for the Guilty Party - Obvious
5) Punnishment of the innocent - layoff time, Hiring Freeze!
6) Recognition for the uninvolved.
Thinking of you keeps me awake
Dreaming of you keeps me asleep
Being with you keeps me alive.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight--nothing which is more important than his own personal safety--is a miserable creature. And has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." Major General John M. Schofield's quote.
Henry V
....
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Skill is knowing how to do it.
Virtue is doing it."
If you read something in a book twice, carefully, and you still dont understand it, it is the authors fault not yours.
Core Values
1. Integrity First
2. Service before self
3. Excellence in all we do.
My soul to God,
My life to my Nation,
My heart to my Lady,
My honor to myself.
Life lessons from Noahs Ark:
1) Don?t miss the boat
2) Remember, we are all in the same boat
3) Plan ahead, it wasn?t raining when they built the Ark.
4) Stay fit, when you are 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
5) Don?t listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
6) Build your future on higher ground.
7) For safety?s sake, travel in pairs
8) Speed isn?t always an advantage, The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
9) When you are stressed, float awhile.
10) Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
11) No matter how bad the storm, there?s a rainbow waiting on the other side.
I have to remember the universal six phases of every project:
1) Excitement - We can do this thing!!!
2) Exhultation - Boy! if we do this and that we'll get this and acomplish that!
3) Reality- Hey, this thing has problems and it takes work and cooperation- Why isnt the world revolving around us and this project?
4) Search for the Guilty Party - Obvious
5) Punnishment of the innocent - layoff time, Hiring Freeze!
6) Recognition for the uninvolved.
Thinking of you keeps me awake
Dreaming of you keeps me asleep
Being with you keeps me alive.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight--nothing which is more important than his own personal safety--is a miserable creature. And has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." Major General John M. Schofield's quote.
Henry V
....
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
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When I dare to be powerful -
to use my strength in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important
whether I am afraid.
....By Audre Lorde
You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience.
..By Serge Kahili King
Instead of measuring your life?s value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you?re headed in is more important than temporary results.
...By Anthony Robbins
to use my strength in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important
whether I am afraid.
....By Audre Lorde
You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience.
..By Serge Kahili King
Instead of measuring your life?s value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you?re headed in is more important than temporary results.
...By Anthony Robbins
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A Friend is a Masterpiece of nature A push,when you've stopped A word,when your lonely A guide,when your searching A smile,when your sad A song, when your glad A true friend is indeed A gift from God
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