Comments on: Viva Knievel! http://www.vendoralley.com/2007/12/05/viva-knievel/ Where Real Estate Gets Its Dirt. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: vendoralley http://www.vendoralley.com/2007/12/05/viva-knievel/comment-page-1/#comment-73 vendoralley Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:58:35 +0000 http://vendoralley.com/2007/12/05/viva-knievel/#comment-73 Here's another favorite about challenging yourself... “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are HARD, because THAT GOAL will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because THAT CHALLENGE is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. JFK, 9/12/62 - Can't you just hear him with New England accent saying "because they are HAARRRD" gr Here’s another favorite about challenging yourself…

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are HARD, because THAT GOAL will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because THAT CHALLENGE is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

JFK, 9/12/62

- Can’t you just hear him with New England accent saying “because they are HAARRRD”

gr

]]> By: Mark Scheel http://www.vendoralley.com/2007/12/05/viva-knievel/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Mark Scheel Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:03:24 +0000 http://vendoralley.com/2007/12/05/viva-knievel/#comment-72 Greg - Great quote. Reminds me of something from the autobiography of Malcom X. He had a quote about how children who are not yet scared of failure try to walk, but adults who are scared, don't always venture out and try. Also a great poem by Dylan Thomas called (I think) Being But Men touches on the same theme. Here is to being child-like (taking risks and "tasting" victory or defeat) in 2008! Greg – Great quote. Reminds me of something from the autobiography of Malcom X. He had a quote about how children who are not yet scared of failure try to walk, but adults who are scared, don’t always venture out and try. Also a great poem by Dylan Thomas called (I think) Being But Men touches on the same theme. Here is to being child-like (taking risks and “tasting” victory or defeat) in 2008!

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