Avenues to Success Notes

Welcome to Avenues to Success

The goals of Avenues to Success are:

• Help college students by giving them daily encouragement
• Provide a way for parents to help and support their college students
• Make it easy for college and university student, alumni and parent associations to offer a valuable  service to the parents. It also a great fund raiser to support their student programs.

Here are quick links for more information:

• Parents
• Colleges, Universities, and their Student, Alumni and Parent Associations
• Anyone Can Subscribe

 

You are invited to explore the site. Thank you for coming.

A Fourth of July Reminder...

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

      - Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, Third President of the United States, architect and author

Painting by Charles Willson Peale (c. 1791).
Independence National Historical Park collection.
Source: National Parks Service Historical Handbook Independence

Here are more websites about today's author:

Thomas Jefferson Biography - The White House

Jefferson' Blood - The Jefferson Hemings Story - PBS.Org

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Princeton University

This is the Avenue to Success for 07/04/08

What is our deepest fear?

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

     - Marianne Williamson, Born 1952, Spiritual activist, author, lecturer

 

Photo Source: Marianne Williamson Website

Other websites about today's author:

A Course in Miracles, Lesson 183 - Oprah and Friends Radio

Luminary: Marianne Williamson - Shift In Action

The quotation is often attributed to Nelson Mandela, but it is actually Marianne's according to Thinkarete

This is the Avenue to Success for 07/02/08

What is a similarity between sheep and people?

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader -- occasionally in the right direction. 

     - Alexander Chase, Born 1926, American Journalist, editor

I couldn't find any more information about Alexander Chase, except for a lot of quotes attributed to him. If you know where I can find more information, leave a comment.

Here are a few more of his quotes:

• A man's home is his wife's castle.
• A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
• Memory is the thing you forget with.
• More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
• The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
• There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
• To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
• To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

This is the Avenue to Success for 07/03/08
 

A new reflection on some childhood fun ...

Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.

     -Yahia Lababidi, Born 1973, Egyptian - Lebanese writer

Photo Source:  The Poets' encyclopedia.com

Yahia Lababidi - Poems, Biography and Quotes - FamousPoetsandPoems.com

Signposts to Elsewhere by Yahia Lababidi - A Review by rawi.org's webmaster

Artist and writer Wanda Collins Johnson describes Yahia Lababidi in her blog as "a poet who expresses the deepest of life’s experiences in a bare minimum of words."

This is the Avenue to Success for 07/01/08

An optomistic view of people...

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

     - Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal), c. 55-127 A.D., Roman Poet know for his satires about Roman life.

Image source: Gutenberg.org

Juvenal - Roman Writer of Satire - About.com

Juvenal, The Invisible Man - PBS.org

Ancient History Sourcebook: Juvenal and Persius: Satires - Fordham University

This is the Avenue to Success for 06/30/08

How to set yourself up for a downfall...

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

     - Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, Emperor of France

Image Source: Trabel.com

Here are some interesting websites about today's author:

Napoleon Bonaparte - Internet Guide

Historical Doubts Regarding Napoleon Bonaparte - The Christia Llibrary, Rowan University

Lucidcafé's Profile of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

This is the Avenue to Success for 06/29/08

When is a little better than a lot?

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

     - Unknown

       I've seen it attributed to Duguet and as a Japanese proverb. I could not find out who Duget is. Anyone       know?

A similar quote is attributed  to  Oscar  Wilde:  The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. 

This is the Avenue to Success for 06/28/08

Fund Raising Tips, Especially for the First Timer

The Walden University Alumni Association made a very interesting and useful post: How to Create a Successful Fundraiser.

Here are some of the topics covered:

Build on Success
Pick an Event With Wide Appeal
Put a Face on Your Cause
Engage the Media
Market, Market, Market
Remember the Goodness of People

If you are planning a fund raiser, especially if it is your first, check out How to Create a Successful Fundraiser.

Here's something effective leaders should consider ...

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.

      - J.B. Phillips, 1906-1982, Bible translator, clergyman

Photo Source: Amazon.com

Here are some internet sites for you to get started on learning more about today's author:

John Bertram Phillips - Wikipedia

The Works of J.B. Phillips - ccel.org

This is the Avenue to Success for 06/27/08

What can we find in the darkness?

It is only going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.

     - Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American author, mythology professor. He coined the phrase "Follow Your Bliss"

Joseph Campbell, circa 1984
Photo Source: The Joseph Campbell Foundation

About Joseph Campbell - The Joseph Campbell Foundation

Joseph Campbell's Mystic Journey - FolkStory.com - from New Perspectives Magazine -- July 1994

Mystic Reflection - an interview with Joseph Campbell by Tom Collins - The Context Institute

This is the Avenue to Success for 06/26/08