Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 09/30/11

To meet someone, someone must meet you, and for that purpose, you must be yourself.
      - Robert Brault, Born 1938, American free-lance writer

 
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Avenues to Success for 09/28/11

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
     - Richard Nixon, 1913-1994, 37th President of the United States

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Avenues to Success for 09/29/11

There are very few monsters that warrant the fear we have of them.
     - Andre Gide, 1869-1951, French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947

Credit: Page from the book Harry and The Terrible Whatzit by Dick Gackenbach

 

 

Avenues to Success for 09/27/11

 Who sows virtue reaps honor.
     - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian painter, engineer, musician, and scientist

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Knowing everything that you know now, what advice would you give others entering or in the early years of graduate school?

Here is a link to some of the advise given to that survey question by doctorial students. Survey respondents were students in one of 11 different fields of study. 

Survey of Doctoral Education and Career Preparation

It is an interesting survey even for consideration of undergraduate majors and other degree programs.

Avenues to Success for 09/26/11

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
     - Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist

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Avenues to Success for 09/25/11

The keen spirit
Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
Start into instant action, and at once
Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

     - Hannah Moore, 1745-1833, English religious writer and philanthropist

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Avenues to Success for 09/24/11

Close the door of hate and open the door of love all over the world.
     - Robert Lewis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Novelist, essayist and poet

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Avenues to Success for 09/23/11

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
     - Henri Frédéric Amiel, 1821-1861, Swiss philosopher and writer

  
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Avenues to Success for 09/22/11

You don't have to be gifted, just dedicated.
     - Major General Marcelite J. Harris, U.S. Air Force

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