Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 07/31/09

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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. 

- Washington Irving, 1783-1859

American essayist, biographer, novelist, historian

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Here are some interesting links for Washington Irving:

Avenues to Success for 07/30/09

Self-confidence means faith in oneself and in his own powers and abilities. It does not mean an exaggerated opinion of one's qualities, but rather a true estimate of what he can do and a belief that he can do it. Self-confidence derives its greatest value from the fact that it causes a person to undertake difficult tasks, to stay with them until they are successfully completed.

     - Dr. Barton Morgan

Do you know anything about Dr. Barton Morgan?

This is the Avenue to Success for 07/30/09

Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.

Avenues to Success for 07/29/09

Strength is the matter of the made up mind.

     - John Beecher, 1905-1980, American poet, writer and journalist

Here is some information about John Beecher found on the web:

"A Political Poet"--An Essay on John Beecher

by Frank Adams
Reprinted from Southern Exposure (1981)

His name was suggestive: even so a superficial reading of his poetry proves conclusive: John Beecher was a radical poet, perhaps America's most persistent for 50 years, the heir of an Abolitionist tradition and proponent of the dispossessed seizing power. His most enduring lyrics are about the downtrodden's fight for economic justice, human dignity and political freedom. He heard the music in their voices with uncanny accuracy.

[Marxism] John Beecher
by Hunter Gray, a friend of John Beecher, 1/8/2005

... I met him for the first time in Arizona in the fall of '59. It was a bitter
time in my home state. From Butte, Montana to the Mexican border, copper workers were on strike, led by the International Union of Mine,  Mill and Smelter Workers. Arizona was a bastion of reaction in those days. Adamant recalcitrance from the huge mining companies backed by anti-labor judges and lawmen, coupled with a sweeping Federal "Communist conspiracy" trial of the top Mine-Mill leadership then in session at Denver, made the hard-rock miners' struggle a flashback to the 1910s. ...

This is the Avenue to Success for 07/29/09

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Avenues to Success for 07/28/09

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

      - Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swedish psychologist, psychiatrist

Good quote. But, what is a "psychic fact?"

In THE JUNGIAN APPROACH TO SYMBOLIC INTERPRETATION
by Barbara F. McManus, Professor of Classics Emerita, The College of New Rochelle

I found this about "psychic fact"

Avenues to Success for 07/27/09

Love begins when the needs of someone else become more important than your own.
      - Lao Wei

Wikipedia has an entry that could identify Lao Wei as Liao Yiwu (Chinese: 廖亦武) (born 1958 in Sichuan), is an author, reporter, musician, and poet. He is a critic of the Chinese regime, for which he has been imprisoned. The quote would lend itself to being authored by a poet. 

I found this comment using "Loa Wei" in a post that says, "I am sorry Jordan Rivers feels offended when overhearing "weguoran," or "lao wei," from Chinese students. These words mean "foreigners" as the author understands. However, what is really behind "lao wei" is "Non-Chinese," not the seeming translation in the dictionary: foreigner. This kind of saying developed in oral Chinese dozens of years ago. In formal situations or when speaking English, I am sure, Chinese students will automatically use a specific address to replace "lao wei," like Canadian or American. Furthermore, people speaking the same language but in different regions will establish their particular jargons over time. This is apparent among people in different provinces in China. So it is not surprising the author never heard the overseas Chinese saying it. Anyway, I am glad Jordan can understand some Chinese. I'd like to make a friend with them and I hope to improve mutual understanding of cultures."
- Yong Chen - Defense of Chinese Vocabulary

This is the Avenue to Success for 07/27/09

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Avenues to Success for 07/26/09

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
     - Henry Kissinger, Born 1923, American political scientist, diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner

Image Source: NobelPrize.org

I considered featuring a few blogs commenting about Henry Kissinger for this post. Google results were overwhelming. There are very opinionated postings about him, pro and con.

This is the Avenue to Success for 07/26/09

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Avenues to Success for 07/25/09

Show me a man who never failed and I'll show you a man who never tried anything hard enough.
     - Allen Waimsley

(According to an entry in Quotes for Master Athletes, Allen Waimsley, a fell runner from England thinks this is his, but admits he may have read it somewhere.)

This is the Avenue to Success for 07/25/09

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Avenues to Success for 07/24/09

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one's course by it, one must still try to follow its direction.
     - Vincent van Gogh, 1853, 1890, Dutch artist

According to the image source, vincentvangoghart.net, the authenticity of this photograph of Vincent Van Gogh is not disputed

Here are some recent blogging related to Vincent van Goth:

There is a simple economic answer to rising college costs

Own the Dollar Blog provides a good argument in

Supply and Demand – College Tuition Rates Will Continue to Rise To Enormous Levels

for why we will be paying more for college.

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Avenues to Success for 07/23/09

You will never understand another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins.
     - Dakota Sioux saying

This is the Avenue to Success for 07/23/09

Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.