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Re: Inspirational quotes

One of my personal favorites from our lead mentor:

"Things don't get done unless somebody does them."
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Re: Inspirational quotes

My personal favorite is from Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss). "Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who mind don't matter. And those who matter don't mind."

I would also point you out to one of my favorite Seuss books, "Oh, the Places You'll Go." I won't post the full text here, because it is too long for a thread post, but I'll give you a link. http://denuccio.net/ohplaces.html
It's not just for kids, it's very, very meaningful for adults too.
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Re: Inspirational quotes

I want to thank everybody contributing to this thread it's kind of taken off.
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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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Re: Inspirational quotes

One of my favorites is from plaque I bought. It reads:

Innovation: The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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Failure is not falling down; but refusing to get up.
- Chinese Proverb

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
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You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time?
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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
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Uuuuuuuuuuur Ahhhhrrrrr Uhrrrr Ahhhhrrrrrr Aaaaaargh...
-Chewbacca
Translated: Capt. Solo, may I please rip his arms out of their sockets?

(and if that isn't inspirational, you don't know beans about Wookies)
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Something we say a lot:
"It should work."

Probably the opposite of inspiration...
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Re: Inspirational quotes

As my coaches would say

"There are two ways to do things. Right, and over."

"Lets get this road on the show!"

"Dont superman it. Not even superman could run a FIRST team on his own."
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"We never even moved on Einstein, in 10 years!" - Chris P.



The inspiration is too much for me to handle
That's awesome
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Re: Inspirational quotes

One of my favorites.

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -- Thomas Alva Edison
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If you have time enough to fix it, you had time enough to do it right the first time.

The hardest thing in life is doing nothing...You never know when you are finished and you never know when you have done a good job.
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"You never have to ask permission to take responsibility." - From Creativity.Inc
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If you have time enough to fix it, you had time enough to do it right the first time.
I really like the contrapositive of this too:

"If you don't have enough time to do it right the first time, how do you expect to have time to fix it later?"
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Does anybody have any good quotes relating work to success....snip...
"I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have." Cox/Jefferson depending which source you trust..

I think this one is a great one for teams looking for inspiration to be a "Champion".
Ask any team taht regularly makes it on to Einstein, and they will all tell you there is a bit of luck (right schedule, right division, right call made/missed...) on making it to or winning Einstein. Most of the regulars will also tell you though that they harder/smarter they work, the luckier they seem to get.

Once your team gets to a "good enough" level of play, they are good enough to be on Einstein, but some element outside of the teams control impacts them from making it, and is often viewed as Bad Luck. Often though, that "Bad Luck" can be mitigated through some other (occasionally extraordinary) effort.

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