Failure to prepare
is preparing to fail.
– John Wooden
Gerald Celente: “If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens…”
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“If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens,
you’ve lost nothing.
But if you don’t prepare for the worst and the worst happens,
you could lose everything.”
– Gerald Celente
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from
The Katherine Albrecht Show, 6/22/10
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
On September 11, 2001
“You’re not allowed to question it;
you’re not allowed to talk about it;
or you’re unpatriotic.”
“I certainly believe that if our administration didn’t participate in it…
they knew about and they allowed it to happen for political reasons to go to war.”
“Many people don’t want the truth
because it would destroy their American Dream”
– Jesse Ventura on Last Call with Carson Daly, 6/5/10
John Wooden Quotes
Compiled by Jeff Fenske
ToBeFree
“Success
is peace of mind
which is a direct result of
self-satisfaction in knowing
you did your best to become
the best you are capable of becoming.”
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“Never try to be better than someone else.
Learn from others,
and try to be the best you can be.
Success is the by-product of that preparation.”
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“Happiness begins where selfishness ends.”
“It’s the little details that are vital.
Little things make big things happen.”
“If something occurred to me that MIGHT help us,
I implemented it.”
“Be quick, but don’t hurry.”
“There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”
“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”
“Make every day your masterpiece. “
“I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.”
“Be prepared and be honest.”
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
“Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.”
“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”
“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”
“Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.”
“The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
“Tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember a story.”
“Listen if you want to be heard”
“Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.”
“If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.”
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”
“For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren’t able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.”
“Talent is God given. Be humble.
Fame is man-given. Be grateful.
Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.”
“It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.”
“Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.”
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
“You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
“Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.”
“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings,
and the feelings of others before your own rights.”
“Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.”
“Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.”
“Never mistake activity for achievement.”
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
“If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.”
“Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.”
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John Wooden: A man who would NOT curse people — “Goodness Gracious Sakes Alive!”
John Wooden’s heavenly perspective: “I’d rather be unknown here and have my name up there.”
[2008] John Wooden on Success, Peace of Mind, Real Joy & Doing for Others
John Wooden [1910 – 2010] recites his poem about being with his Lord: “Don’t Look Back”
Coach John Wooden (at age-90) redefines ‘success’ AND John Wooden on ‘change’ we can believe in
[photo] John and Nellie Wooden
John Wooden in 7 words: “Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”
[quote] John Wooden: “If something occurred to me that MIGHT help us, I implemented it.”
John Wooden wasn’t satisfied with Webster’s definition of success.
He felt like young people deserved a healthier definition,
and then laid out for them the ingredients of success
in this chart.
“Success is peace of mind which is
a direct result of self-satisfaction
in knowing you made the effort to
become the best that you are
capable of becoming.”
(exact wording of his website’s version)
A giant, printable version is available at
Coach Wooden’s Site
.
John tweaked his Pyramid of Success over the years.
It’s interesting to hear him discuss the significance
that changing even just one word makes.
This is an earlier version,
which still has:
“Faith (through prayer)”
.
This version also has “FAITH (through prayer);”
though, it’s slightly different in other areas.
I couldn’t find a more legible photo of this version.
God bless!
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My Favorite John Wooden Quotes
“No Hate,” Himself (John Wooden) Recognized as the Greatest Coach! Why?
John Wooden: A man who would NOT curse people — “Goodness Gracious Sakes Alive!”
John Wooden’s heavenly perspective: “I’d rather be unknown here and have my name up there.”
[2008] John Wooden on Success, Peace of Mind, Real Joy & Doing for Others
John Wooden [1910 – 2010] recites his poem about being with his Lord: “Don’t Look Back”
Coach John Wooden (at age-90) redefines ‘success’ AND John Wooden on ‘change’ we can believe in
[photo] John and Nellie Wooden
John Wooden in 7 words: “Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”
[quote] John Wooden: “If something occurred to me that MIGHT help us, I implemented it.”
High quality version with transcript HERE
John Wooden redefines success:
“I coined my own definition of success
in nineteen hundred and thirty four…:
peace of mind
attained only through self-satisfaction in
knowing you made the effort
to do the best of which you’re capable”
.
John Wooden on change we can believe in:
“Our tendency is to hope that things will turn out
the way we want them to…,
but we don’t do the things that are necessary
to make those things become a reality.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MM-psvqiG8]John Wooden: Coaching for people, not points
With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father’s wisdom.
Two selections from the transcript:
I coined my own definition of success in nineteen hundred and thirty four, when I was teaching at a high school in South Bend, Indiana. Being a little bit disappointed, and delusioned perhaps by the way parents of the youngsters in my English classes expected their youngsters to get an A or a B. They thought a C was all right for the neighbors children, because the neighbors children are all average. But they weren’t satisfied when their own — would make the teacher feel that they had failed, or the youngster had failed. And that’s not right. The good lord in his infinite wisdom didn’t create us all equal as far as intelligence is concerned, any more than we’re equal for size, appearance. Not everybody could earn an A or a B, and I didn’t like that way of judging it.
I did know know how the alumni of various schools back in the ’30s judged coaches and athletic teams. If you won them all, you were considered to be reasonably successful. Not completely. Because I found out — we had a number of years at UCLA where we didn’t lose a game. But it seemed that we didn’t win each individual game by the margin that some of our alumni had predicted. And quite frequently I — (Laughter) — quite frequently I really felt that they had backed up their predictions in a more materialistic manner. But that was true back in the ’30s, so I understood that. But I didn’t like it. And I didn’t agree with it. And I wanted to come up with something that I hoped could make me a better teacher, and give the youngsters under my supervision — whether it be in athletics or in the English classroom — something to which to aspire, other than just a higher mark in the classroom, or more points in some athletic contest.
I thought about that for quite a spell, and I wanted to come up with my own definition. I thought that might help. And I knew how Mr. Webster defined it: as the accumulation of material possessions or the attainment of a position of power or prestige, or something of that sort. Worthy accomplishments perhaps, but in my opinion not necessarily indicative of success. So I wanted to come up with something of my own.
I recalled, I was raised on a small farm in Southern Indiana. And Dad tried to teach me and my brothers that you should never try to be better than someone else. I’m sure at the time he did that, I didn’t — it didn’t — well, somewhere, I guess in the hidden recesses of my mind, it popped out years later. Never try to be better than someone else, always learn from others. Never cease trying to be the best you can be — that’s under your control. If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to the things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control. Then I ran across this simple verse that said, “At God’s footstool to confess, a poor soul knelt, and bowed his head. ‘I failed!’ He cried. The Master said, ‘Thou didst thy best, that is success.'”
From those things, and one other perhaps, I coined my own definition of success. Which is: peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you’re capable. I believe that’s true. If you make the effort to to the best of which you’re capable, try and improve the situation that exists for you, I think that’s success. And I don’t think others can judge that. I think it’s like character and reputation. Your reputation is what you are perceived to be; your character is what you really are. And I think that character is much more important than what you are perceived to be. You’d hope they’d both be good. But they won’t necessarily be the same. Well, that was my idea that I was going to try to get across to the youngsters.
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I say to you, in whatever you’re doing, you must be patient . You have to have patience to — we want things to happen. We talk about our youth being impatient a lot. And they are. They want to change everything. They think all change is progress. And we get a little older — we sort of let things go. And we forget there is no progress without change. So you must have patience. And I believe that we must have faith. I believe that we must believe, truly believe. Not just give it word service; believe that things will work out as they should, providing we do what we should. I think our tendency is to hope that things will turn out the way we want them to , much of the time. But we don’t do the things that are necessary to make those things become reality.
Related:
“No Hate,” Himself (John Wooden) Recognized as the Greatest Coach! Why?
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from Radio Liberty, 4/27/10, hour 4
“What we have to do is not have ‘power to the people.’ We have to take the power away from the ruling elite, what I call ‘the brotherhood of darkness.’
We don’t want power. We want free people. We want to limit the power of the government…. We’re going to have to get back to transfer control back to the local communities….”
“This is all orchestrated. It’s all scripted.”
– Dr. Stanley Monteith
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4VMZb8wLY]Forgiveness and the Freedom of Letting go
Forgiveness is the mental, emotional and/or spiritual process of ceasing to feel resentment, indignation or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference or mistake, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution
“Only the soul that loves is happy.” – Goethe
“Ignorant men raise questions
that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Men show their character in nothing more clearly than
what they think laughable.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In art,
the best is good enough.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He only earns his freedom and his life
who takes them every day by storm.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.
In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
“They can steal our pension funds. They can steal 28 trillion in the last year and a half. They can lie about WMDs. They can launch new wars. They can lie about the Gulf of Tonkin.
They can do whatever they want because the public will not face up to evil.
They are just ready to buy into any asinine fraud.”
•
“We’re not safe as a society unless we start facing up to evil.
But people think that if they play the mind game, the mental mind game of denying something’s going on, it makes it go away.
It doesn’t make it go away. It only gets worse.
– Alex Jones
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgGwMHfWcsU]Alex Covers Fox News Hit Piece Against Jesse Ventura & 9/11 Truth on Alex Jones Tv 1/4
Bombshell: Silverstein Wanted To Demolish Building 7 On 9/11
Paul Joseph Watson
http://www.prisonplanet.com
Friday, April 23, 2010
Preface from Alex Jones: To truly grasp the magnitude of this story, you really have to read the entire article. Immediately after the pull it controversy, debunkers claimed there was no plan to conduct a controlled demolition of the building. Now the fact that officials were considering blowing up the building is established, Silversteins consistent denial that this took place is a huge smoking gun. How did Silverstein expect to demolish the building safely when such a process takes weeks or even months to properly set up, even without the additional chaos surrounding WTC 7 on 9/11? How could explosives have been correctly placed on such short notice inside a burning building that had already been evacuated unless the explosives were already in place? This new revelation is astounding and it needs to be investigated immediately.
A Fox News hit piece against Jesse Ventura and the 9/11 truth movement written by former Washington D.C. prosecutor Jeffrey Scott Shapiro inadvertently reveals a shocking truth, that World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein, who collected nearly $500 million dollars in insurance as a result of the collapse of Building 7, a 47-story structure that was not hit by a plane but collapsed within seven seconds on September 11, was on the phone to his insurance carrier attempting to convince them that the building should be brought down via controlled demolition.
Writing for Fox News, Jeffrey Scott Shapiro states, I was working as a journalist for Gannett News at Ground Zero that day, and I remember very clearly what I saw and heard.
Shortly before the building collapsed, several NYPD officers and Con-Edison workers told me that Larry Silverstein, the property developer of One World Financial Center was on the phone with his insurance carrier to see if they would authorize the controlled demolition of the building since its foundation was already unstable and expected to fall.
In February of 2002 Silverstein Properties won $861 million from Industrial Risk Insurers to rebuild on the site of WTC 7. Silverstein Properties estimated investment in WTC 7 was $386 million. This buildings collapse alone resulted in a payout of nearly $500 million, based on the contention that it was an unforeseen accidental event.
A controlled demolition would have minimized the damage caused by the buildings imminent collapse and potentially save lives. Many law enforcement personnel, firefighters and other journalists were aware of this possible option. There was no secret. There was no conspiracy, writes Shapiro.
http://www.infowars.com/bombshell-sil…
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
“It’s our own fault. We’ve got the kind of government we deserve. We allow all this to go on [corrupted courts – ed.]. We can’t complain. It’s our fault.
Benjamin Franklin told us when he come out of the convention. He said, ‘we’ve given you a republic, if you can keep it.’
We haven’t kept it.”
– Hoppy Heidelberg, 1997
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRllW6R8_Fg]Jeff Davis Talks with Hoppy Heidelberg – 1997 – Former Grand Juror for OKC Bombing
April 11, 2010 — Taped at the Dallas Preparedness Expo in April 1997.
Transcribed by me from this video
“An optimist is a realist
who has a plan to respond
to make people survive and thrive
through the catastrophe.”
– Bill Deagle
“Men must be governed by God
or they will be ruled by tyrants”
•
“Where God does not govern,
tyrants will rule”
– William Penn
“Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”
— Patrick Henry
From: News with Views
“The more prominent you are in Christ’s service, the more certain are you to be the butt of calumny [slander]. I have long ago said farewell to my character.
I lost it in the earlier days of my ministry by being a little more zealous than suited a slumbering age. And I have never been able to regain it except in the sight of Him who judges all the earth, and in the hearts of those who love me for my work’s sake.”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
“Karl Marx said that religion is the opiate of the masses —
when really it’s football.”
“Why don’t you realize what your life’s priorities are?
A bunch of guys chasing a ball around a field
has become the focal point of Americans’ lives.
And we wonder why the country’s going down the toilet.
Look in the mirror.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hTbRqZcnjQ]The Super Bowl has been CANCELED!!
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As a result of this total breakdown of basic morality in virtually every distinguished element within the American framework, constitutional governance is also virtually nonexistent. Adams was right: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral . . . people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
From: News with Views
In Patrick Henry’s immortal “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” speech, he said, “[I]t is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth.” Never have Henry’s words been truer than they are today. For too long, good men have turned a blind eye to the obvious reality that America’s Ship of State has swerved significantly off course. In fact, it is no hyperbole to say that America’s Ship of State is completely rudderless and, absent a speedy course correction, seems destined to crash against the rocks of oppression and economic ruin in the very near future. For anyone willing to open their eyes, the manifestations of America’s almost-certain collision with history are everywhere.
America’s Liberty Ship is dependent upon the twin mainsails of Morality and Constitutional Government to stay on course. It is an irrefutable and irreversible law that these twin sails are indissolubly linked. We cannot have one without the other. America’s founders clearly understood this.
For example, our second President, John Adams, said, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Samuel Adams (called the “Father of the American Revolution”) said, “He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of this country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man . . . The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.” …
Our first President, George Washington (called the “Father of his Country”), said, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens.”
And to quote Patrick Henry again, “Bad men cannot make good citizens . . . A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.”
Yet, what do we see taking place all over America–including in the halls of government, the boardrooms of business, and the sanctuaries of churches? An almost complete and total breakdown of morality. And by a breakdown of morality, I am referring to much more than sexual immorality.
Morality demands honesty and equity in judgment. Morality is selfless. Morality is humble. Morality is jealous over truth and justice. Morality would never jeopardize the future on the altar of the present. Morality does not place personal advancement above principle. Morality respects its heritage and honors its ancestors. And Morality gladly submits to lawful authority, especially divine authority.
But compare basic morality to the modus operandi of today’s governments, businesses, and churches.
“The idea is to destroy America
so America looses its abilty to say ‘No’
to the world-government dictatorship.
And that’s what we’re seeing unfolding
before our eyes.”
— David Icke
on The Kevin Trudeau Show, 1/13/09
(transcribed by Jeff Fenske)
“You won’t believe what you don’t know.”
— Theme phrase from “Conspiracy Theory” series with Jesse Ventura on TruTV
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from The Alex Jones Show, 11/20/09
“When you’re in first place,
everyone wants to knock you down.”
— Bob Chapman