Strive to be Better!

Strive not to be perfect...

rather, strive to be

better than you were

yesterday.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Alternatives, Options, and Substitutions Create New Answers!

The blind can see and the deaf can hear; 

 they just do it another way. 

Don't let life's roadblocks stop you.  

Find or build a new path, 

and keep moving forward.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Clever vs. Wise

"Yesterday I was clever,

so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise,

 so I am changing myself."

~Rumi

Y O U ! IMAGINE the Possibilities!

"Possibly the greatest waste in life

is    the    gap 
between

what    you    are

 and what you could become.”

~Zig Ziglar

Throw, complain, stumble, climb, or BUILD!

 “We can throw stones, complain about them,

 stumble on them,  climb over them,

 or build with them.” 

~William Arthur Ward

William Arthur Ward (1921–1994), author of Fountains of Faith, is one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.

More than 100 articles, poems and meditations written by Ward have been published in such magazines as Reader's Digest, This Week, The Upper Room, Together, The Christian Advocate, The Adult Student, The Adult Teacher, The Christian Home, The Phi Delta Kappan, Science of Mind, The Methodist Layman, Sunshine, and Ideals.  Further information regarding William A. Ward, found here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arthur_Ward

Don't wait for opportunity...

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” 

~Milton Berle

~a.k.a.:  UNCLE MILTIE  

Early life

Milton Berlinger was born into a Jewish family in a five-story walkup at 68 W. 118th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. He chose Milton Berle as his professional name when he was 16. His father, Moses Berlinger (1873–1938), was a paint and varnish salesman. His mother, Sarah (Sadie) Glantz Berlinger (1877–1954),^[2] eventually became stagestruck and changed her name to Sandra Berle when Milton became famous.

Berle entered show business at the age of five when he won an amateur talent contest.^[3] He appeared as a child actor in silent films, beginning with The Perils of Pauline, filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey.^[4] The director told Berle that he would portray a little boy who would be thrown from a moving train. In Milton Berle: An Autobiography, he explained, "I was scared shitless, even when he went on to tell me that Pauline would save my life. Which is exactly what happened, except that at the crucial moment they threw a bundle of rags instead of me from the train. I bet there are a lot of comedians around today who are sorry about that."

By Berle's account, he continued to play child roles in other films: Bunny's Little Brother, Tess of the Storm Country, Birthright, Love's Penalty, Divorce Coupons and Ruth of the Range. Berle recalled, "There were even trips out to Hollywood—the studios paid—where I got parts in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, with Mary Pickford; The Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Tillie's Punctured Romance, with Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Marie Dressler."

In Poppin' the Cork, 1933

However, Berle's claims to have appeared in many of these films, particularly the 1914 Chaplin Keystone comedy Tillie's Punctured Romance, are hotly disputed by some, who cite the lack of supporting evidence that Berle even visited the West Coast until much later. The newsboy role often claimed by Berle in Tillie was unquestionably played by resident Keystone child actor Gordon Griffith.

In 1916, Berle enrolled in the Professional Children's School, and at age 12 he made his stage debut in Florodora. After four weeks in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the show moved to Broadway. It catapulted him into a comedic career that spanned eight decades in nightclubs, Broadway shows, vaudeville, Las Vegas, films, television, and radio.

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Build YOUR Wings!

"If we listened to our intellect, 

we'd never have a love affair. 

We'd never have a friendship. 

We'd never go into business, 

because we'd be cynical. 

Well, that's nonsense. 

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time 
and build your wings on the way down."
~Ray Bradbury

"Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years"

To read the more about this interesting man, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury

ALWAYS STRIVE TO DO YOUR BEST!

“Regard it 
as just as desirable 
to build a chicken house 
as to build a cathedral.”

Frank Lloyd Wright