February 23, 2011 1:30 p.m.
LION OR GAZELLE
“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
February 22, 2011 11:22 a.m.
* Bruce Barton says "Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." Dale Carnegie says "The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." One obvious interpretation of it all is that some amateurs built the ark, and professionals built the Titanic. Experts have been predicting the worlds end since Saint Clement 1 in 90 A.C. declared it would end in the first century, but what makes a expert entitled. Your reputation always precedes you, and your work reverberates into any future considerations anyone will offer you. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. The best expert is the reflection in the mirror, stay humble, and remember the most resilient parasite is an idea. Your amateur ideas.
February 11, 2011 9:32 p.m.
* I remember a hot August practice in college my senior year. It was towards the end of fall camp and we were on the field stretching before a meaningless inter-squad scrimmage, with the actual season starting in 2 weeks. I had already secured my starting spot on the team, and I was looking past the day more so into the game we would have against Miami in sunny Florida soon. I didn’t want to be at practice. An assistant coach who was scouring the field joking with players came over to where I was and said "Great day for football", by this time we were countless days into camp and everybody was hurting and tired. He then said "rather be here than in Iraq possibly fighting for your life, at least here you play for fun then go home". I'd thought about that before, but on this day it hit me a little harder. I realized how spoiled I was acting, and how privileged I was to be in college playing a sport I loved. It wasn't easy, but compared to other circumstances it was a walk in the park. From that point on, whenever my surroundings or mood weighed me down I pictured myself without a leg or arm from fighting a war I had no attachments to. We all sign up for things without reading the small print at times, but like the quote says Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
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