Season 14 (1962)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzSflmBxIw]What’s My Line? Henry Makow (Writes Advice To Parents Column)
What’s My Line? Henry Makow (Writes Advice To Parents Column)
If I fail,
I try again,
and again,
and again.
– Nick Vujicic
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZuKF3dxCY]I Love Living Life. I Am Happy.
Nick Vujicic and his attitude serve as a great examples of the celebration of life over limitations.
The human spirit can handle much more than we realize.
“I LOVE LIVING LIFE. I AM HAPPY.”
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Think you’ve got it bad?
Need some encouragement?
Fallen down?
Can’t find the STRENGTH to get back up?
Watch this video. It will help. Then share it with others.
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“If I fail, I try again, and again, and again…”
If YOU fail, are YOU going to try again?
It matters how you’re going to FINISH…
Are you going to finish STRONG?
We are put in situations to build our character… not destroy us.
The tensions in our life are there to strengthen our convictions… not to run over us.
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Nick is thankful for what he HAS.
He’s not bitter for what he does NOT have.
I have never met a bitter person who was thankful.
I have never met a thankful person who was bitter.
In life you have a choice: Bitter or BETTER?
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From: Rense.com…
…
Goodbye, dear Joanie, we will miss you, your BRILLIANT mind, and your always happy, sparkling voice more than words can adequately say. This is a great personal loss for me and for the GOOD on this forlorn planet. Joan personally traveled to over 100 of the top meetings of the elite controllers to capture the most crucial information and present the BIG PICTURE to all who have ears to hear and who are not afraid of the truth. She is irreplaceable. — Jeff Rense
Joan’s Internet Site – http://www.womensgroup.org/
JOAN MARIE (YOCCO) VEON
On October 18, 2010, with her husband Rod holding her hand, Joan answered her Master’s call and slipped quietly away to be with her Lord and Savior after a courageous three year battle with breast cancer. She was 61 years old.
Joan’s remarkable life began in Racine WI on May 17, 1949, born as a twin with Raymond, to Albert A. and Mary A. (Parino) Yocco. On March 22, 1963 Joan asked Jesus to come into her heart and be her Lord and Savior, after which she dedicated her life to doing God’s will.
Joan is a graduate of Horlick High School, class of ’67, continued on to attend Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, then finished her education at Geneva College in Beaver Falls PA earning her Bachelor’s degree in Business.
While living in PA she met Roderick W Veon whom she married on August 13, 1977. Joan and Rod lived in the Pittsburgh area before moving into the Washington DC area. For the past 8 years they have resided in Middletown MD.
Joan’s career began as an executive secretary in the International Department at J I Case Company. Upon earning her business degree she worked as a Certified Financial Planner in PA, The IDS and Windsor Financial Group in MD, before incorporating and opening Veon Financial Services, Inc. in the spring of 1986.
As Joan studied financial trends she began to notice an alignment indicating a world currency. Joan prayed diligently for God to show her truth and in 1994 the Lord opened the door for her to attend her first global meeting on Population Control in Cairo Egypt, initiating her first glimpse of world government. Thus beginning Joan’s second career as a credentialed, independent, International Journalist reporting for USA Radio News Network. During the next 16 years the Lord opened doors for Joan to interview and ask key questions of prime ministers, presidents, kings, and heads of state. At times, as the only American reporter, Joan covered over 103 international meetings, including: the G7, G8, G10, G20, and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel Switzerland; attended yearly the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland; and twice a year covered the IMF World Bank meetings. In addition she attended UN meetings on the Free Trade Areas of the Americas, Sustainable Development, the Earth Summit, Climate Control, the International World Court, and numerous others. Following the UN conference on Sustainable Development in Istanbul Joan was compelled to write her first book “Prince Charles, the Sustainable Prince” published in 1997, followed by her second book “Global Straitjacket” in 1999. Joan founded The Women’s International Media Group, a non-profit organization, in 1998 to share her vast knowledge and understanding of world government. In addition Joan also wrote a monthly newsletter, produced many DVDs on global topics, appeared as a regular guest speaker on hundreds of radio talk shows and was invited to be a keynote speaker for various meetings around the world. Most recently Joan wrote articles for newswithviews.net.
Though small in stature, Joan was a giant warrior and devout patriot.
Joan is survived by the love of her life and best friend husband, Rod, her mother, Mary A. Yocco of Watonga OK, twin brother, Raymond A. Yocco of Racine WI, sisters Pat (Pablo) Ramirez of Watonga OK, Debi Massegee of Owasso OK, Judy Yocco of Phoenix AZ, Carrie (Greg) France of Watonga OK, brother John Yocco of Racine WI, in-laws Ralph and Mary Veon of Beaver Falls, PA, sisters in-law Carol (Gene) Whalen of Enon Valley PA and Lynn (Bill) Allen of DeLand FL. She is further survived by many precious nieces and nephews, cousins and dearly loved friends. She was proceeded in death by her beloved father, Albert Yocco, brothers-in-law Rodney Pierce, Jerry Massegee and a niece Joy Yocco.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, October 24, 2010 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Purath-Strand Funeral Home, Douglas Av at 3 Mile Rd. in Racine, WI. Services to be held on Monday, October 25, 2010, at 11 a.m., at Calvary Memorial Church, 4001 Washington Avenue in Racine, WI, interment to follow at West Lawn Cemetery. Donations in Joan’s honor can be made to the Women’s International Media Group, Inc., PO Box 77, Middletown MD 21769.
“As an international reporter I have made it a point to ask the crucial questions in order that the unspoken agenda may be put into words. I have also sought to keep abreast of evolving global changes, how the world will be affected, and to report what is truth.” Joan Veon
Sad! Freedom fighter, Joan Veon has passed on. Download her last interview with Dr. Stan
Joan was a powerfully motivated investigator who attended and reported on many of the globalists’ meetings.
I have been linking to her site for some time, which has information as to what happened: womensgroup.org
Here is probably her last time as a guest on Dr. Stan’s Radio Liberty. It looks like this program will only be online for about 1 more week, before it’s rotated out. (she appears about 5 minutes into the broadcast)
| Date: 07-01-10 | |
| Hour: 1 | |
| 3:00: Joan Veon – When Central Banks Rule the World | |
Related: Did Lady Gaga Have Rival Murdered?
From: Natural News
If you’ve ever wondered about the true mental sickness of the entertainment industry, look no further than Lady Gaga. She rose to fame and has become a teen favorite by pumping out tunes like “Love Game” where she belts out lines such as “Let’s have some fun, this beat is sick, I wanna take a ride on your disco stick.”
Seriously. This is the stuff your teenage kids are piping into their brains through their iPods, by the way.
And that’s just the beginning: Lady Gaga is also largely responsible for the new craze of wearing “dilated pupil contact lenses” which make young girls appear to be either sexually aroused or stoned. These contact lenses are potentially dangerous, and they are being brought into the U.S. illegally, bypassing FDA approval. But thanks to Lady Gaga, young girls are increasingly interested in wearing them so they, too, can look “aroused and stoned” in order to arouse potential sex partners.
But there’s more to this sick story: Lady Gaga was recently honored at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, where she received a whopping eight “moonman” awards as well as Video of the Year honors.
To accept these awards, Lady Gaga actually appeared on stage wearing a dress made out of animal flesh. Yes, she was literally draped in animal flesh. This has been reported as her “red meat dress.”
“Meat is the decomposing flesh of a tormented animal who didn’t want to die, and after a few hours under the TV lights, it would smell like the rotting flesh it is and likely be crawling in maggots — not too attractive, really.” says PETA on its website (http://blog.peta.org/archives/2010/…).
Is Lady Gaga a worshipper of death?
But it goes far deeper than that. Anyone who would wear a dress made out of red meat is, for starters, mentally ill. But Lady Gaga goes far beyond just mentally ill, reaching to depths of necro-worship that make her appear almost Satanic.
In an upcoming live event, she promises to be surrounded by on-stage corpses. It is being widely reported across the ‘net that she plans to put dead human bodies on stage as part of her “act.”
Now, for those who really know what goes on behind the scenes of the entertainment industry, this probably comes as no surprise. There has always been a bizarre element of dark energy at work at the fringes of this industry, but Lady Gaga may be taking it to a whole new depth of darkness. Here’s why:
Cindy’s drum solo actually preceded Carlos’ remarks,
but was spliced in between here [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo5zBP0LIQw]Carlos Santana – To marry Cindy Blackman
hitecwiz | July 19, 2010
Carlos Santana announces his engagement to Cindy Blackman at the Midwest Amphitheater
Here is Cindy in action[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BbVCiPqJvg]INSANE WOMAN DRUMMER!!! *Cindy Blackman*
1 or of not the best women drummers ever! Look and get wowed!
Part of Cindy’s secret, now age-50, from wikipedia:
Physical Demands of Playing
Blackman keeps herself in shape for the physical demands of playing the drums by practicing yoga and karate.[8] “I’m really conscious of taking great care of myself,” Blackman says.[8] “I make sure my body is in peak condition as much as possible. When I’m at home, I eat completely organic, take a lot of sea minerals, try to eat natural foods. I eat nothing out of a can, I don’t drink soda and I usually juice my own juices. When I see my peers we talk about different things and I know it pays off.”[8]
From: apnews.myway
Actor Kevin McCarthy, who played the frantic doctor trying to save his friends and neighbors in the science-fiction movie classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” has died at age 96. …
But while he would consistently win praise for his acting during a long and busy career, his most lasting fame would come for “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” In the 1956 film, he vainly tried to warn residents in his small town of the evil pod people from outer space who were quietly taking over the personalities of everyone on Earth.
His frantic shouting of “You’re next!” to those in approaching cars became so well known among science-fiction fans that he was often asked to spoof the role. He more or less did that in the opening minutes of the 1978 remake, which starred Donald Sutherland as the hero menaced by the pod people.
“Body Snatchers” flopped at the box office, considered too bleak for audiences of the time. It was elevated to classic status, and its star to iconic status, after such critics as Francois Truffault hailed it and late-night television programmers embraced it.
“I’ve always felt that my truth don’t have to be validated
by somebody else’s ignorance.”
•
“How come you don’t hear nobody on Fox News
talking about the Federal Reserve?”
•
“These folks can mess with this; they can do this.
But the one thing they can’t do:
On a clear night, look up at the Big Dipper and the Milky Way.
They can’t mess with that.
And the same force that put the Milky Way
and the Big Dipper and the universe together
put us together.
And when you tune into that type of power,
the rest of [inaudible] is just chump stuff.”
– Dick Gregory
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujo6CQKQNrI]Civil Rights Icon Dick Gregory: The Social Engineers are Here to Divide and Conquer Us 1/4
Alex welcomes to the show comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur Dick Gregory. On September 10, Mr. Gregory announced he will be consuming only liquids beginning Sunday, September 12, until his eightieth birthday in 2012 until the real truth about the events of September 11, 2001, are made public. Dick Gregory has recorded numerous albums, including Dick Gregory’s Frankenstein and Dick Gregory Running for President, and is the author of several books, including Dick Gregory’s political primer and Dick Gregory’s Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin’ With Mother Nature!
http://www.dickgregory.com/index2.html
http://www.infowars.com/
This is good!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeU6I2qOY3k]Lindsay Lohan Poisoned! Along with 300 Million Other Americans
Alex Jones explains why Lindsay Lohan, and by extension millions of Americans are being poisoned with methamphetamine style drugs like Ritalin that cause brain shrinkage, heart problems and a myriad of other disorders. Alex also highlights how SSRI prozac drugs are turning people into psychopaths and leading to a massive increase in suicides and other reckless behavior.
Young girls and even babies are now going into puberty as a result of milk laced with hormones, Bisphenol A and a toxic cocktail of other ingested substances.
Alex also highlights the deadly threat of sodium fluoride and how it causes IQ reduction, bone cancer, and how vaccines are also contributing to a massive and sustained chemical attack on free humanity as the globalists’ eugenics agenda goes into high gear.
http://www.infowars.com/lindsay-lohan…
The health of our country is in grave condition. We poison ourselves with the water and food contaminated by man-made toxins. Then we poison our minds and souls with untold number of prescription drugs. Now 5 of 6 new drugs on the market don’t even treat the conditions for which they are prescribed.
We must wake up and take action. Our bodies and environments must be clean so human race can continue it’s global awakening to the New World Order. Read the ever expanding list of SSRI stories http://www.ssristories.com/ and do an image search for “DU babies” and see photos I could not bring myself to show you in this video.
It’s not often that an interview surprises me in a great way! So I thought I’d share it with all of you.
I’ve been enjoying listening to The Word of Promise audio Bible (Jim Caviezel plays Jesus), so I was curious to find out more about Richard Dreyfuss, who plays Moses. I had no idea how cool he is!
As I watched, my jaw dropped open. I’ve hardly known anything about this man.
God bless!
Jeff : )
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airdate May 7, 2010
Dreyfuss: … I lived a blessed life. I was able to do for 50 years something I adored doing and I was rewarded and praised for it. Then when it ceased to being as intense a love affair and, as the Bible says, for everything there’s a season, when I got older and I stopped being given the highest salaries and the best parts, I also was not allowed to have my opinions heard and that made me quit.
I said to myself what I had promised myself when I was 12. When I was 12, I said, “You’re gonna be an actor and a star. You’re gonna go into politics and then you’re gonna teach history.” So when I was 56, I quit being an actor, meaning I quit developing. I quit trying to raise projects up and all that.
I went to Oxford for four years and I knew Cassandra’s Curse. You know, she had the ability to see the future and no one would believe her. Well, I wrote a piece for the San Diego Tribune and I said, “I have not been able to find the words that you would make you feel the dread I feel about the future of this country.”
I would ask you, when you think about the future of America, do you have a sense of ease and comfort and relaxation or do you sense some unease and something wrong even if you can’t name it?
Tavis: I feel the same thing you feel. …
Dreyfuss: There are two things that’ll make me lose my sense of humor. When someone says, “You have no right to that flag” or when they say… “If you’re against the policy, you’re against the troops.” Those things get me really angry because I’m an American and I love America more than I can possibly tell you. …
Dreyfuss: …patriotism means that people can understand that this country uniquely has an inherent meaning and most countries are just accidents of history.
This country was intended for something and, if we had tried it in Europe, they would have killed us to the last man. It was only the Atlantic Ocean that protected us. But we have a meaning and what is it? It’s that we put the Bill of Rights up on a wall so that everyone could see every time we failed and every time we succeeded and we had the guts and the naivety and arrogance and cockiness to say this is our picture of our moral future.
That is an act unequaled in history, so that we said that’s our goal. We announce it now and every time we failed it, it’s headlines and every time we succeed at it, it’s commonplace. And it’s what makes America completely unique in the story of nations. …
You can’t deny that we are a picture of a country that is like after the Big Bang. Everything is going this way and, when you don’t hold people accountable and when you allow illegal wars and when you can’t define the party principles because the win is more important than the principles, then you know you’re in trouble. …
Tavis: …why are you hopeful?
Dreyfuss: Because I believe, first of all, that individuals make history. I don’t believe that it happens by itself. I believe that America is hard and it takes maintenance and you can’t forget that you’ve got to take your car into the shop every six months and lube it up.
You cannot take for granted the complexity and complement of Republican democracy. Republican democracy actually says that the citizenry is as important as any other sector in the government. So why do we not teach those kids how to run the country? We teach our kids what we want them to know and we don’t teach them what we don’t want them to know, so someone is saying that.
By the way, if all of the news information industry is owned, let’s say, 35 to 55 percent by one guy, that’s a subject for discussion and if his name happens to be Rupert Murdoch, he’s got five passports and one of them is Chinese. So when he was [unintelligible] to the president’s ear, who’s he talking for, and you have a right to ask that. You have an obligation. …
Tavis: Tell me about Lightkeepers. …
Dreyfuss: This is a movie about a guy who has made an oath to keep the light on and that means no matter what, the light never goes off because, if the light goes off, people will die and that’s the oath that all lightkeepers took. That is as clear a metaphor about this country as you can get because the darkness which is the overwhelming history of mankind has come back.
We live in a senseless, Alice in Wonderland world where nothing is logical, where no one is punished, where people who are rewarded are only rewarded because they were born to it and now the Supreme Court has actually, in a way, by saying the corporations are unfettered, giving political contributions, you know what that really is? That’s closing the circle.
We came here to get away from that and now our own Supreme Court has brought it back. A caste and class system that says money is the only counter and, if you don’t have it, you’re out. That is actually bringing history back to where it began at the birth of this country.
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
“We have removed our emotions. We are becoming harder. Do you really want that?
How much are you willing to take, and how much are you willing to risk to speak the truth in love and graciousness — and stand up — and at least be willing to be hated?
Or at the end of the day, is it all about you…?”
“If abortion is merely about women’s rights, ladies and gentlemen, then what were mine? …my life was being snuffed out in the name of women’s rights.”
“And what arrogance, what absolute arrogance … that the stronger should dominate the weaker, should determine who lives or dies.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPF1FhCMPuQ]Gianna Jessen Abortion Survivor in Australia Part 1
Part 1 of 2 Gianna Jessen, abortion survivor speaks at Queen’s Hall, Parliament House, Victoria. Australia – on the eve of the debate to decriminalize abortion in Victoria.
Gianna’s visit was sponsored by the Ad Hoc Interfaith Committee.
“Some of you might be slightly annoyed that all I keep doing is talking about God and Jesus. But how on earth can I walk about, limping through this world, and not give ALL my heart and mind and soul and strength to the Christ Who gave me LIFE!
So if you think I’m a fool, it’s just another jewel in my crown.
My whole intent in living here is just to make God smile.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8B1nKGIAeg]Gianna Jessen Abortion Survivor in Australia Part 2
WARNING: Some crude language
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seN-K66BihQ]Opie and Anthony interview ALEX JONES Part 1/10
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.”
•
“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.”
•
“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.”
Related:
John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success
“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.”
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!
Related:
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.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niTeVc6pjzY]Kareem Abdul Jabbar & Bill Walton Remember Coach John Wooden
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIUcLOCCO_w]Wooden Love and Balance
HomesickProductions — March 12, 2010 — Interview of John Wooden shot in Los Angeles CA at Vip’s Family Restaurant
Related:
“No Hate,” Himself (John Wooden) Recognized as the Greatest Coach! Why?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCdlWdEMXBA]Wooden Quote
HomesickProductions — March 12, 2010 — Interview of John Wooden shot in Los Angeles CA at Vip’s Family Restaurant
Related:
John Wooden [1910 – 2010] recites his poem about being with his Lord: “Don’t Look Back”
“No Hate,” Himself (John Wooden) Recognized as the Greatest Coach! Why?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gn1sby12UY]Coach John Wooden Caring Interview
CaringChannel — October 21, 2008 — Coach John Wooden talks with Val Halamandaris about his core beliefs.
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-FyRMpo824]John Wooden – Poem
John Wooden recites a poem about aging, and the peace he has in seeing the Lord
• • •
Don’t Look Back
By John Wooden
The years have left their imprint
on my hands and on my face.
Erect no longer is my walk,
and slower is my pace.
But there is no fear within my heart
because I am growing old.
I only wish I had more time
to better serve my Lord.
When I have gone to Him in prayer,
He has brought me inner peace.
And soon my cares and worries
and other problems cease.
He’s helped me in so many ways;
He’s never let me down.
Why should I fear the future
when soon I could be near His crown?
Though I know down here
my time is short,
there’s endless time up there.
And He will forgive and keep me ever in His loving care.
Related:
“No Hate,” Himself (John Wooden) Recognized as the Greatest Coach! Why?
John Wooden’s heavenly perspective: “I’d rather be unknown here and have my name up there.”
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.
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The Gordon Lightfoot album that preceded Sundown, Don Quixote, was and probably always will be my favorite Lightfoot Album. I still listen to it regularly. Though it’s not perfect, it inspires me towards adventure, towards the mountains, towards life!!!
I always wondered what happened to Gordon, whose earlier music was such a big influence on my life. He never seemed to recover. Now I know. So many have gone down this road and lost their dreams.
But what is this road — what Gordon called on Sundown the artificially (even via substance abuse) induced, make-believe Carefree Highway — a substitute for the real thing?
What happens when one accepts the Carefree Highway mindset without really being on the carefree highway?
And what happens when an entire country accepts the Carefree Highway mindset without really being on it?
But there is a true carefree highway — which we can experience now, and will be able to more fully ride on when ONE happens — when people are truly ONE with each other and God — being truly in Christ (John 17). “Then the world will know,” Jesus said.
This is the Carefree Highway. And this is what my spiritual site is all about: ONEcanhappen.wordpress.com.
May we all ride together!!!
By the way, there are still some songs on Sundown that I’ll always like, like “Seven Island Suite.” And I’ve always loved the album cover, which was inspired me to title this set of photos of myself by this same name:
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Jeff Fenske : )
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