Refuse to Lose

Jul 122012
 
Emily Dickinson Poems Book Cover

Emily Dickinson Poems Book Cover (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

* Abraham Lincoln went to war as a captain…. and came home as a private.

* In his first season as an NFL coach, Jimmy Johnson did not win a single game. That was before winning back-to-back Super Bowls in 1993 and 1994.

* Emily Dickinson had only seven poems published during her lifetime.

Find lots more glimpses of early struggles at Emory’s Self Efficacy site.

 

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When I Was Little…

Mar 192012
 
Books

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“When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book.  Not a writer. People can be killed like ants.  Writers are not hard to kill either.  But not books; however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf life in some corner of an out-of-the-way library somewhere, in Reykjavik, Valladolid, or Vancouver.”

-from A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz

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