if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
in the direction of his dreams
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MAIN B undervolt
Swigert (CMP): Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here.
CAPCOM Jack Lousma (CC): This is Houston. Say again, please.
Lovell (CDR): Uh, Houston, we’ve had a problem.
Lovell (CDR): We’ve had a MAIN B BUS undervolt.
CAPCOM Jack Lousma (CC): Roger MAIN B undervolt.
CAPCOM Jack Lousma (CC): Okay, stand by Thirteen, we’re looking at it.
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The results may yield the answer for you
Try it, see how it turns out. The results may yield the answer for you.
Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
That’s the God I met on the mountain
…from the movie, Alive
After 20 years, you analyze a lot. You remember people, heroism. “The Miracle of the Andes”, that’s what they called it. Many people come up to me and say that had they been there, they surely would have died. But it makes no sense, because until you’re in a… situation like that… you… you have no idea… how you’d behave. To be affronted by solitude without decadence or a… single material thing to prostitute it elevates you to a spiritual plane, where I felt the presence of God. Now, there’s the God they taught about me about at school. And there is the God that’s hidden by what surrounds us in this civilization. That’s the God I met on the mountain.” (from the movie, Alive)
Real, constructive mental power
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Laurence J. Peter
US educator & writer (1919 – 1988)