Dike According to Maya Angelou, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Your positive attitude and professional demeanor makes our individuals, their families, your coworkers and supervisors feels special. You are a job to be around. M. F. Kamara Maya Angelou once stated that “Try to be rainbow in someone’s cloud.” I have watched your countless times as your tried to maneuver your ways to make…
The author, Ralph Waldo Emerson proposed the idea of going and trying new things or you will never learn anything new. He best describes it in his quote, “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” This statement suggests that to learn something new you first, have to try it. This very true considering my experiences I would have to agree with his quote. Though our life we are constantly preoccupied with being perfect at everything we then, become…
Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller’s was an amazing truly outstanding performance of what maybe the most important American play ever written. Examining the time line and the characters within the play most peoples can relate their family to the Loman family. The play addresses loss of identity and a man’s inability to accept change within himself and society. Every character within the play serves an important role and has a psychology purpose within the story. Willy Loman was consider an…
Failure manifests as numerous different things and presents itself in a variety of forms, none of which embody excitement, or joy, or even a tad pleasure. Failure is tough; it habitually feels dreadful and heart wrenching, and occasionally makes you want to crawl up into the tightest, smallest, most compact little ball you manage to muster, where you sit in a corner and hope and pray for it somehow to go away, for somehow the pain to stop. Other times failure results in embarrassment, take a…
Professional ice hockey player Wayne Gretsky is attributed to having said, "You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." While this may have more of a literal meaning in a hockey arena, it can also figuratively apply to many aspects of life. I have made many decisions in my life that have made me into the person I am today. I took chances on some of those decisions, but I wish I had taken more. They always work out for the better in the end. In making decisions of all kinds, I have learned…
What is a time that I experienced failure and how did I learn from it? Everyone in there life will have experienced failure at one time or another. Failure isn’t bad all the time and it doesn’t define who you are, you are defined by how you bounce back from that failure. A time I have experienced failure is during football when I fumbled the ball. I had just got put in by the coach and he was finally starting to trust me and I blew it. I replayed it over and over in my head wondering why I…
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." When working out everyone should have this thought in mind. I believe most people do, but I also believe different people interpret this quote differently. There are three types of people when it comes to working out. First there are the Jacked Jack's, second there are Stinky Stacey's, and lastly there are the Lazy Lucy's. We all know the guys that go to the gym religiously. I…
Failure is a noun that traditionally puts a bad taste in someones mouth and scares them off. As a person, it's a little different for me, I view it as an opportunity to grow. When I do fail I don't sit down an moan, I get up and look at how it influenced me to be a greater human being. Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." There's one experience that sticks out more than any of the rest when it comes to failure for myself. This incident played such a…
In “Climbing the Mountain of Success”, Sydney Harris discusses our perception of success by disputing the weak analogy of a ladder and introducing his own comparison that is climbing a mountain. I agree with Harris that climbing a ladder is unlike the journey that it takes to be successful. As Harris points out, “a ladder proceeds vertically, rung by rung, with each rung evenly spaced, and with the hole apparatus leaning against a relatively flat and even surface. A child can climb a ladder as…
“Strength and growth only come only through continuous effort and struggle” - Napoleon Hill. As a Sophomore I took 1 challenging class, which was an honors class, because I was afraid of struggling and fear of failing. I was almost mentally accepting that I would never have the capability or succeed in Honors classes and AP classes. I began to find out the term “Honors” was just a word the education placed to intimidate individuals to not challenge themselves. To this day this has been my…