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Re: Inspirational quotes

I don't know if these are inspirational or perhaps cynical, but a few of my auto-signature lines over the years:

If you ask six experts a question and get the same answer from all of them, it's a question that you didn't need experts to answer.

[My day job] - where the impossible is routine, and a routine is impossible.

All improvement is change. Change that is not an improvement is for the worse.

Faith is not about belief. Love is not about emotions. Both are about actions that benefit others.

And now, the opening for our team's GP award that I wrote last week (I had to stop there, because the award ceremony is still in the future). And in case it isn't obvious from context, Northshore High is Slidell High's traditional rival.
Every large organization that seeks to make a difference in the world has core values that shape how it pursues its mission. The value at the core of FIRST is Gracious Professionalism. Professionalism is about hard work, striving for perfection, and respect for your fellows. Graciousness is about balancing pride and humility when dealing with the moments that really matter - victory, defeat, recognition, rejection, gain, and loss. Grace and Professionalism are both lofty standards, but like a team, Gracious Professionalism means so much more than the sum of its parts. Gracious Professionalism is about mentorship, cheering for your adversaries, and yes, even HELPING your adversaries. Gracious professionals share inspiration, ideas, and labor with their fellows - including the competition. Look in the pits at an FRC event, and you'll see scouts looking at the other robots - and the pit crews explaining their mechanisms - in enough detail to recreate them. Look on Chief Delphi, the social medium of FRC, and you'll see students and mentors swapping strategies and designs, and suggesting improvements for other teams. Look in the stands at an FRC event, and you'll see teams cheering for each other - including Slidell cheering for Northshore and Northshore cheering for Slidell.
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