Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 08/31/08

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet, how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
                    -From The World According to Mister Rogers
    
     - Fred "Mister" Rogers, 1928-2003, American educator, children's TV show host

Source: Congressional Gold Metals

"Mr. Rogers" has a lasting influence on us all. Here are a few websites to start your search to find out more about him:

Avenues to Success for 08/30/08

Every path has its puddle.

- English Proverb, also attributed to George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet, orator and priest

Source: Tressie Davis Photography

Okay, so this isn't an image of George Herbert. I feel that the photo captures the zeal of the little girl; the same zeal that should reflect our  attitude when we come to the puddles we encounter in life.

Here are some bloggers that also used the quote:

Avenues to Success for 08/29/08

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

     - Ted Williams, 1918-2002, American Baseball Player

Source: ESPN Classic

He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.

As a note aside, I highly recommend a visit to Cooperstown. It has a lot to offer with the Hall of Fame, The Farmer's Museum and Fenimore Art Museum and much more.

Here are more websites about Ted Williams:

The Official Ted Williams Website

Ted Williams - Baseball Library
Outspoken, immensely talented, patriotic, iconoclastic, demanding, larger than life: all apply to Ted Williams, for two decades baseball's best hitter and one of the best who ever lived. ...

1948-1979 Ccountdown 34.1959 Fleer Ted Williams - The Baseball Card Blog
... It turns out that you can form a pretty good picture of who Ted Williams was as a ballplayer with just five or six cards, not 80. And you really only need one card to form a solid image of who Ted Williams was as a human being: ...

This is the Avenue to Success for 08/29/08

A good prescription from Lily Tomlin

For Fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

    

- Lily Tomlin, Born 1939, American actress, comedian, writer

Source: Wowowow.com

This is the Avenue to Success for 08/17/08

Avenues to Success for 08/28/08

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

     - Nancy Thayer, American author

Source: NancyThayer.com

Websites and Blogs about Nancy Thayer and her work:

I'm Heartless - A shelter from the Storm
I usually try hard to find something positive to say about a book but this is one time I'm going to be heartless and say I did not like this book (Moon Shell Beach). ...

Nancy Thayer - Zoominfo.com
Profile generated by one internet reference

FYI, There is another Nancy Thayer, who is an artist. According to the Sherry Washington Gallery, "Detroit-born painter Nancy Thayer is widely exhibited, collected, reviewed and published. The acclaimed artist and University of Michigan professor has taught art from grade school through university level. .."

This is the Avenue to Success for 08/28/08

Avenues to Success for 08/27/08

The dew of compassion is a tear.

      - George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

1788-1825, English romantic poet

Source - Royal Deeside

Here are some more websites about Lord Byron:

The Life and Works of Lord Byron - EnglishHistory.net
A collection of resources dedicated to the Second Generation Romantic Poet

Lord Byron - 20/20Site.org
In language which was intelligible and persuasive, under shapes and forms which were suggestive and inspiring, Byron delivered a message of liberation. ...

George "Don Juan" Gordon, Lord Byron - Incompetech
Byron (no one ever called him George) was born on 22 January 1788, in London. His parents, Catherine Gordon Byron (of the old and violent line of Scottish Gordons) and John Byron, had been hiding in France from their creditors, but Catherine wanted their child born in England, so he was1. ..

This is the Avenue to Success for 08/27/08

Avenues to Success for 08/26/08

You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.

    - Unknown

Source: The Village Voice

This is the Avenue to Success for 08/26/08

Avenues to Success for 08/25/08

Try not to be a man of success, but rather a man of value.

 - Albert Einstein, 1879-1961, Scientist, physicist, Nobel laureate

Source: Canadian Dyslexia Association

Here are some more websites with information about Albert Einstein:

Pictures of Einstein - The University of Frankfurt
Page links back to a galley of pictures of famous physisicists

What did Albert Einstein Invent? -  Following the Path of Discovery
Repeat famous experiments and inventions

An Einsteinium:

Albert Einstein used to go to dinners where he was invited to give a speech. One day, on his way to one of those dinners, he told his chauffeur (who looked exactly like him) that he was dead tired of giving the same speech, dinner after dinner.

"Well," said the chauffeur, "I've got a good idea. Why don't I give the speech since I've heard it so many times?''

So Albert's chauffeur gave the speech perfectly and even answered a few questions. Then, a professor stood up and asked him a really tough question about anti-matter which the chauffeur couldn't answer.

"Sir, the answer to your question is so easy that I'll let my chauffeur answer it!"

Source: License Pirate  (blog)

This is the Avenue to Success for 08/25/08

Avenues to Success for 08/24/08

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

      - Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905-1961, Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel Laureate

Source: United Nations

Here are a few more websites for your visit to find out more about Dag Hammarskjöld::

Dag Hammarskjöld - Nobel Peace Prize, 1961- NobelPrize.org
Biography

About Dag Hammarskjöld - The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
“The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, far from being just a Swedish Institution, has become, over several decades, one of the worlds most important and inspiring initiatives in the quest for true and authentic human development in the more vulnerable areas of the world. ..."

Former UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld - 1953-1961 - Global Policy Forum

This is the Avenue to Success for 08/24/08

Avenues to Success for 08/23/08

What saves a man is to take a step.
Then another step.

    - C. S. Lewis, 1898-1963, Irish writer and scholar

(- seen it attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Source: Wikpedia

Here are some interesting sites about today's author:

Chronology of the Life of C.S. Lewis - The C.S. Lewis Foundation
Inspired by the life and legacy of C.S. Lewis, our mission is to advance the renewal of Christian thought and creative expression throughout the world of learning and the culture at large.

The Bible and C.S. Lewis Study Guide - A study of the Christian world view
This web site only has the outline and a few of the quotes from The Bible and C. S. Lewis Study Guide. The paper copy of the guide is 60 pages long with quotes from a wide variety of authors, the Bible and the full range of C. S. Lewis' works. I have more information about the guide on the Frequently Asked Questions page on this web site or contact me through e-mail. A mail link is at the bottom of the page

C(live) S(taples) Lewis (1893-1963) - Kirjasto.sci.fi
British literary critic, scholar and author, known for his classic fantasy stories for children, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA (1950-1956), which show the influence of J.R.R. Tolkien. During his literary career, Lewis was one of the most popular spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world.

This is the Avenue to Success for 08/23/08