****MEMPHIS CRIME****

QHe keeps me functioning each and every day. Without Him, I will be nothing But, with Christ, HE strengthens me. (Phil 4:13)

Q"THE ONLY THING NEEDED FOR EVIL TO TRIUMPH IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING"

Q"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
     Morpheus

QRISK - “You cannot discover new oceans unless you have courage to                    lose sight of the shore.”

QADVERSITY - “Do not fear the winds of adversity.  Remember: A kite               rises against the wind rather than with it.”

QOPPORTUNITY - “You always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
 

QWorth - “It is not worth having if it is not worth fighting for.”
 

QFalling down doesn’t make you a failure .......staying down does
 

Q"Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight."
 

Q"Never let yesterday use up today."
 

QLife isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
 

QIf you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
 

Q"You may never know what results will come of your actions, but if you

            do nothing there will be no result."

Q"We are challenged on every hand to work untiring to achieve excellence in our lifework. Not all men are called to specialized or professional jobs; even fewer rise to the heights of genius in the arts and sciences; many are called to be laborers in factories, fields, and streets. But no work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
Martin Luther King Jr.
 

QSuccess is a journey, not a destination
 

QI have never failed. Simply discovered 12,000 ideas that do not work.
 

QConsider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have to change others.
 

Q"Push to test." "Release to detonate."
 

QLife is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

 QThe difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.  Author: Vince Lombardi

QHave great hopes and dare to go all out for them.  Have great dreams and dare to live them.  Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale

QYou can complain that roses have thorns; or rejoice that thorns have roses. Author: Ziggy

QStop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.

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Bill Gates, for sure, is a different kind of person from most of us but
his insight to some of the problems with the attitudes of young people is
right on target.  This should be required reading for all young people.

In his new book Business @ The Speed of Thought, Bill Gates lays out 11 rules that students do not learn in high school or college, but should.  He argues that our feel-good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set up for failure in the real world. Here are the rules.

RULE 1 - Life is not fair; get used to it.

RULE 2 - The world won't care about your self-esteem.  The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

RULE 3 - You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a second home, until you earn both.

RULE 4 - If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.  He doesn't have tenure.

RULE 5 - Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.  Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping, they called it opportunity.

RULE 6 - If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

RULE 7 - Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.  They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the clothes in your own room.

RULE 8 - Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.  In some schools they have abolished failing grades.  They will let you try as many times as you want to get the right answer.  This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

RULE 9 - Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.  Do that on your own time.

RULE 10 - Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to their jobs.

RULE 11 - Be nice to nerds.  Chances are you'll end up working for one.