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No matter how old you are now. You are never 2 young or 2 old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished & (against the odds) great things at different ages… 1) Helen Keller At the age of 19 months Helen became deaf & blind. But that didn’t stop her.She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree 2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard & violin, he composed from the age of 5 3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes” 4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank 5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13 years 6) Nadia Comăneci At age 14, gymnast of Romania scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics 7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama November 1950, at the age of 15 8) Pele soccer superstar was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil 9) Elvis was a Superstar by age 19 10) John Lennon was 20 years & Paul Mcartney 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in1961 11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936 12) Beethoven was a Piano virtuoso by age 23 13) Issac Newton at 24 wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 14) Roger Bannister was 25 When he broke the 4 minute mile record 15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity 16) Lance E Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created the two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28 18) Alexander the Great by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world 19) J.K.Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript for Harry Potter 20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman 2 fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind 22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest (highest Mountain in the world 23) Martin Luther King jr was 34 When he did the speech “I have a dream” 24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated 4 Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (was 32 ) & Wilbur (was 36) when they invented & built the world's first successful airplane & making the first controlled, powered & sustained heavier-than-air human flight 26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died & virtually unknown yet his paintings today are worth millions 27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon 28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and 49 years old for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas 30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused 2 obey bus driver’s order 2 give up her seat 2 make room for a white passenger. 31) John F. Kennedy was 43years when he became President of the United States 32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out 33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote “ The Hunger Games” 34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out 35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa 36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president 37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels 38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote “the cat in the hat” 40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549, in the Hudson River in, 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived. 41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise 42) J R R Tolkien was 62 when the lord of the ring books came out 43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the United States 44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats 45) Nelson Mandela was 76 When he Became Presid ↗
The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it. ↗
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When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports. ↗
I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls. ↗
Portia we can admire because, having seen her leave her Earthly Paradise to do a good deed in this world (one notices, incidentally, that in this world she appears in disguise), we know that she is aware of her wealth as a moral responsibility, but the other inhabitants of Belmont, Bassanio, Gratiano, Lorenzo and Jessica, for all their beauty and charm, appear as frivolous members of a leisure class, whose carefree life is parasitic upon the labors of others, including usurers. When we learn that Jessica has spent fourscore ducats of her father’s money in an evening and bought a monkey with her mother’s ring, we cannot take this as a comic punishment for Shylock’s sin of avarice; her behavior seems rather an example of the opposite sin of conspicuous waste. Then, with the example in our minds of self-sacrificing love as displayed by Antonio, while we can enjoy the verbal felicity of the love duet between Lorenzo and Jessica, we cannot help noticing that the pairs of lovers they recall, Troilus and Cressida, Aeneas and Dido, Jason and Medea, are none of them examples of self-sacrifice or fidelity. […] Belmont would like to believe that men and women are either good or bad by nature, but Antonio and Shylock remind us that this is an illusion; in the real world, no hatred is totally without justification, no love totally innocent. ↗
Give me a scholar, therefore, who is able to think and to write, to look with an eye of discernment into things, and to do business himself, if called upon, who hath both civil and military knowledge; one, moreover, who has been in camps, and has seen armies in the field and out of it; knows the use of arms, and machines, and warlike engines of every kind; can tell what the front, and what the horn is, how the ranks are to be disposed, how the horse is to be directed, and from whence to advance or to retreat; one, in short, who does not stay at home and trust to the reports of others: but, above all, let him be of a noble and liberal mind; let him neither fear nor hope for anything; otherwise he will only resemble those unjust judges who determine from partiality or prejudice, and give sentence for hire: but, whatever the man is, as such let him be described. ↗
When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed. ↗
