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Take Calculated Risks

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
~George S. Patton

The person who risks nothing has nothing and is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live or love.
Chained by his certitudes, or his addiction, he’s a slave.
He has forfeited his greatest trait, and that is his individual freedom.
Only the person who risks is free.

  
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BOSS61 2/1/2012 8:17PM

    I admire anyone who has the resourcefulness to scour the annals of military history to find a clean and non-profane quote attributable to General George! Thing is, for me Patton always has taught valuable business lessons in the context of not out-running supply lines and balancing achievement and success against its ancillary cost (in his case, bad press). People are complex after all.

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SHERYLDS 1/31/2012 1:16PM

    It's hard for me to accept RISK versus MOVING OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE (as in same old, same old). I like a sure thing...or at least I need to feel confident that what I plan on doing has a high probability of being successful...even if I have never done it before.

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Face Fear!

Monday, January 30, 2012

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

FEAR is an acronym:
False
Education
Appearing
Real

  
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1CRAZYDOG 1/30/2012 1:43PM

  SHERYLDS: It's to emoticon !!

Love the quote, and thanks for sharing it.

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SHERYLDS 1/30/2012 10:32AM

    Obviously...Ralph never saw Parkour emoticon

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Feel the Wind on Your Face!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.

- Evelyn Ashford, American athlete

  
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SHERYLDS 1/29/2012 11:24AM

    the only time I feel the wind is when there is a breeze
but at least I'm moving...and that's good for me
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Be Tactful!

Saturday, January 28, 2012

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
- Stendhal, 19th century French writer

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to Hell and have them looking forward to the trip.
-Unknown

  
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SHERYLDS 1/28/2012 10:47AM

    sounds like the Shepherd is a politician.

and as for the tact trip...I need to work on that. When I get angry at someone, I often find myself literally 'EATING' my words rather than confront the person, for fear of words I can't take back. But those unexpressed words can implode inside of you. I've got to start reading the 'ART OF SEDUCTION" By Robert Greene and his 48 RULES OF POWER

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TINY67 1/28/2012 10:35AM

    emoticonI know a lot of people who should read this.

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Never Quit.

Friday, January 27, 2012

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
- Unknown

Don’t quit before the miracle happens!

  
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GINA180847 1/27/2012 8:58AM

    So true!

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