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Diana Nyad is a great exemplar of persistence. At the age of 28 she attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. No one had ever done it before. She failed. Then she failed again, and again. She tried and failed 4 times. Finally on her 5th try at age 64 she succeeded. For 53 hours she…

A study designed to examine the ability to do more than one thing at a time has found that most people who think they can perform simultaneous tasks fairly well really can’t. The study conducted at the University of Utah assigned multiple tasks to college students and measured their ability to do things…

What does perfection require? In bowling it means a score of 300, making 12 consecutive strikes. There is a higher level of perfection in bowling though, it is a perfect series, or three scores of 300 in a row. Bill Fong was on his way to that kind of perfection. Walking to the line with his bowling…

A man from London, on vacation in France, caught the Olympic fever. He announced the grandiose plan to swim to America carrying the Olympic flame across the Atlantic. The distance is 3600 miles. He fell just a little bit short. Only 300 yards offshore lifeguards rescued him. Much like a person’s attempt…

When we live more aware of what we need to do than of what Christ has already done, we're drifting [from grace to self-effort]. Dave Harvey When Sinners Say "I Do" p. 146

110% My teammates cheered. Coach didn't say a word and neither did I. I usually enjoyed "Film Day," every Monday afternoon. Long before Camcorders and VHS tapes, our coach would have every game filmed on 16 mm, have it developed overnight and ready for Monday's practice. Dressed only in football pants…

EFFORT/CHASING THE WIND The day after Hurricane Frances blew through Florida, remnants of the storm appeared for sale on Internet auctions sites. More than 170 items were listed on eBay the day after the eye of the storm came ashore. Items up for auction included a T-short worn by a resident during the…

A11 things come to those who wait – but only what’s left over by those who hustle. 1800 Quippable Quips, E. C. McKenzie, page 21

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. -Wayne Gretzky Reader’s Digest, October, 1999, page 61

If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up. Wish I’d Said That, Cleon Lyles, page 153

It isn’t that we fail when we try, but that we fail to try! Speaker’s Sourcebook, Eleanor Doan, page 100

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short…