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in the direction of his dreams

Mike VanderMolen — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:58:03 +0000

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

MAIN B undervolt

Mike VanderMolen — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:16:31 +0000

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.

This what started the amazing story of Apollo 13.

The results may yield the answer for you

Mike VanderMolen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:55:52 +0000

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

Mike VanderMolen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:16:40 +0000

“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

Mike VanderMolen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:47:52 +0000

…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

Mike VanderMolen — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:51:24 +0000

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)