Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 04/30/08

Every time you have a task before you, examine it carefully, tack exact measure of what is expected of you. Than make your plan and, in order to execute it properly, create a method, never improvise.
     - Marshal Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French Field Marshal

Source:  Wikipedia

Ferdinand Foch - Biography - historyofwar.org

Unjustly Accused: Marshal Ferdinand Foch and the French "Cult of the Offensive"- firstworldwar.com 

Ferdinad Foch - Biography - answers.com

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Avenues to Success for 04/29/08

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
     - Samuel Coleridge, 1722-1834, English essayist, critic, poet and philosopher

Source:  Wikipedia

Samuel Coleridge - His influence on Transcendentalism

The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive

VoS. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - U of California, Santa Barbara

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Avenues to Success for 04/28/08

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
     - Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German Philosopher

Source: Wikipedia

An essay by Kelley R. Ross

Arthur Schopenhauer and German Philosphy

Arthur Schopenhauer - The Architect of the Culture of Death 

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Really make the stimulus payments work.

Want to know how to make the biggest impact with your Economic Stimulus check? Put $50 in your pocket and explore the great stores and services in your towns and neighborhoods. Stay away from the big boxes and national chains. You'll make some very surprising discoveries about what is available in town and help your community, too.

If you take your children, or grandchildren to the local bakery in the morning, they will glow with delight over the smells and assortment of cookies, cakes and bread.

We settled in the nice city of Wadsworth, Ohio, just west of Akron, 30+ years ago. Every time the need for a new major appliance came, we did the usual shopping at the national stores that boast great savings. Guess what? The local appliance stores won our business with great service and, a surprisingly competitive price. So what if the price is few bucks more, you may get a haul-away for free.

I bet that there is a store that you drove by many a time and wondered what it was about. Well, you have some money that was given to you to spend. Go in, enjoy looking around, chatting with the staff and spend a few bucks.

The result of your exercise of spending the few dollars with the local stores will be keeping that money in town. The purchases will support the owners and employees. The local taxes they pay go to running the services from the community and the schools. It'll multiply your tax dollars.

Just think of the economic boost to the community if everyone spent just $50 of the stimulus package in his town and neighborhood. Best of all, chances are you will return to buy again when you discover there are some wonderful people with great products, waiting to serve you.

Encourage your family, friends and neighbors to do likewise. Get a grass roots movement going.

I must admit that this is not my original idea, A lady from Rittman, Ohio  wrote a letter to the  editor in The Wadsworth Post. Of course she suggested folk stay out of the big boxes, and Wadsworth, and encouraged spending their checks in Rittman. I think she is on to something.

Avenues to Success for 04/27/08

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
     - Lewis Mumford, 1895-1990, American Social Philosopher, writer, architectural critic and urban planner

Source:  Lewis Mumford - A Brief Biography

Lewis Mumford - Megathinker and Master of the Metaphorm

Lewis Mumford - Official Website - Monmouth University

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Avenues to Success for 04/26/08

Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
     - Unknown

Source: Oregon State University

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Avenues to Success for 04/25/08

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
     - Florence Nightingale, 1820-1901, English founder of modern nursing

Source:  Wikipedia

BBC - History - Florence Nightingale

The Florence Nightingale Museum

A Selection of Letters Written by Florence Nightingale

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Avenues to Success for 04/24/08

Cherish your visions and your dreams because they are the children of your soul . . . the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
     - Unknown

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Avenues to Success for 04/23/08

Know-how is tremendous when you know-why; know-how lets you drive it, knowning-why drives you.
     - Charlie Jones, American writer       Author of the great little book, Life is Tremendous

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