*Persistence Can Be An Inspiration* (I'm Writing Book #8 now)Never Give Up!
"I will persist until I succeed.
I was not delivered into this world in
defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.
I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by m...y
shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to
walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear
not those who weep and complain, for their
disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep.
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I succeed."
--Og Mandino
"Even Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamship, was ridiculed and thought to be a fool by the people of his day.
This excerpt appeared in Insight: “Here’s an extract from a notebook of Robert Fulton, who invented the steamship, who changed ships forever from sail to steam on the oceans of the world. He wrote, ‘As I had the occasion daily to pass to and from the shipyard where my boat was in progress, I often loitered near the groups of strangers and heard various remarks as to the object of the new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculations of losses or expenditures; the dull repetition of
“Fulton’s Folly.” Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, a warm wish cross my path.’”
Emerson said, “To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Do you really think it was easier to excel a hundred or two hundred years ago or that people were easier to get along with? I don’t think so, not after reading Fulton’s notes.
I don’t think it’s ever been easy to succeed. We have some inventions that make our lives easier today now that we have the computer, cell phones, Internet, and other technological advances.
Although the technology is better today, you may still have to work hard to succeed and to accomplish a great goal.
Henry Ford, the pioneer of the Model T Ford, wanted his engineers to build an eight-cylinder engine, a V-8 engine. After studying the proposal, they thought it couldn’t be
done. Ford told them to forget about the fact that it couldn’t be built and get to work until it was done.
After six months, the engineers came back to Ford and told him they couldn’t do it. Ford told them to continue no matter how long it took, but do it. After six more months, they still could not build this engine and told Henry Ford that it was impossible. Ford ignored the word “impossible” and told them to get back to work on the eight cylinder engine and don’t stop until they’ve got it working.
The engineers did as they were told and came back with a phenomenal V-8 engine that made some of the Ford automobiles the hottest cars of the time. The V-8 is still in
use today.
Ford could have given up because experts in the field told him repeatedly his idea was impossible, yet Ford believed his idea was possible. He knew it wouldn’t be easy,
yet he repeatedly told them during their failures “I want it and I’ll have it.”
C-2012 John Paul Carinci (from My Book)
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Being-Different-success-ebook/dp/B002C75GY4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297550537&sr=1-1
"I will persist until I succeed.
I was not delivered into this world in
defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.
I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by m...y
shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to
walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear
not those who weep and complain, for their
disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep.
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I succeed."
--Og Mandino
"Even Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamship, was ridiculed and thought to be a fool by the people of his day.
This excerpt appeared in Insight: “Here’s an extract from a notebook of Robert Fulton, who invented the steamship, who changed ships forever from sail to steam on the oceans of the world. He wrote, ‘As I had the occasion daily to pass to and from the shipyard where my boat was in progress, I often loitered near the groups of strangers and heard various remarks as to the object of the new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculations of losses or expenditures; the dull repetition of
“Fulton’s Folly.” Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, a warm wish cross my path.’”
Emerson said, “To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Do you really think it was easier to excel a hundred or two hundred years ago or that people were easier to get along with? I don’t think so, not after reading Fulton’s notes.
I don’t think it’s ever been easy to succeed. We have some inventions that make our lives easier today now that we have the computer, cell phones, Internet, and other technological advances.
Although the technology is better today, you may still have to work hard to succeed and to accomplish a great goal.
Henry Ford, the pioneer of the Model T Ford, wanted his engineers to build an eight-cylinder engine, a V-8 engine. After studying the proposal, they thought it couldn’t be
done. Ford told them to forget about the fact that it couldn’t be built and get to work until it was done.
After six months, the engineers came back to Ford and told him they couldn’t do it. Ford told them to continue no matter how long it took, but do it. After six more months, they still could not build this engine and told Henry Ford that it was impossible. Ford ignored the word “impossible” and told them to get back to work on the eight cylinder engine and don’t stop until they’ve got it working.
The engineers did as they were told and came back with a phenomenal V-8 engine that made some of the Ford automobiles the hottest cars of the time. The V-8 is still in
use today.
Ford could have given up because experts in the field told him repeatedly his idea was impossible, yet Ford believed his idea was possible. He knew it wouldn’t be easy,
yet he repeatedly told them during their failures “I want it and I’ll have it.”
C-2012 John Paul Carinci (from My Book)
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Being-Different-success-ebook/dp/B002C75GY4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297550537&sr=1-1
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