I'm going back in time for this story, but it is such a great example, I hope you will indulge me. The score was 17-15 and Northwestern had just beaten Notre Dame to start the 1995 football season. At the time, everyone screamed what a big upset it was, that it was a fluke, an aberration, a can't-happen-but-did type of incident.
Crime, drugs, taxes, divorce, governmental disagreements, corporate break-ups, educational difficulties and a host of other things simply do not fill the bill. We've got something else that we absolutely must worry about - namely, our height.
According to the book, The Truth About Your Height, by researcher Thomas Samaras, if Americans keep growing at the rate they have for the past 75 years, it will have a devastating environmental effect.
Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
One of the better-known quotes is, "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are probably right." For a long time it's been accepted that your attitude plays a significant role in your success. Documented studies, time after time, have proven that attitudes are more important than facts and it's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.
History records that in the first part of the fifteenth century a young French peasant girl, Joan of Arc, was called to save her country from its enemies. There was something about her that endeared her to her followers and caused them to have a respect - almost a reverence, an awe - for what she was attempting to do.
The saying is old but it's true: "When you give a man a fish you feed him for the day. When you teach him to fish, you feed him for life."
Welfare is repeatedly referred to as a "dead-end street," particularly if it's used for anything more than a safety net on a temporary basis.
Penn State University won the national championship for 1986 by defeating Miami in the Fiesta Bowl. It was a close, tough game which was decided by inches. However, Penn State came within a whisper of not making it into the championship game when they played Notre Dame that year.