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.

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You are invited to explore our site. You will see quotes we've sent out to help our subscribers stay focused on their goals, along with links to websites about their authors.

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Avenues to Success for 12/04/09

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

     - Janis Joplin, 1943-1970, American singer songwriter and music arranger

Image source: Last.fm

Janis Joplin website 

This is the Avenue to Success for 12/04/09. Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.

Avenues to Success for 12/05/09

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas: learning to write and learning to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

     - Gerald R. Ford,1913-2006, 38th President of the United States

President Ford addresses the 63rd Annual Meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at Constitution Hall. April 28, 1975

Image source: Greald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum

Avenues to Success for 12/06/09

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

     - Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English mathematician and physicist

Here is an interesting explanation for the title of John Lennon's Apple Album Walls And Bridges I found at SuperSeventies.com. It reflects Newton's words.

Written and recorded in New York in a fortnight's outporing of creativity, alls And Bridges proved to be John Lennon's most diverse, insightful -- and commercial -- in years. The 10 songs synthesized the confused and painful emotions he had experienced during a six-month spree of partying and dissipation in Los Angeles, the most notorious incident being forcibly shown the door at the Troubadour Club along with drinking companion Harry Nilsson after heckling a Smothers Brothers performance and striking a waitress in March 1974.

Because most of the record's lyrics explore the barriers separating himself from others, while also frequently expressing the hope that these might somehow be overcome, John chose the title Walls and Bridges. "Walls," said Lennon, "keep you in either protectively or otherwise, and bridges get you somewhere else." In its searing emotional intensity, Walls and Bridges resembles John's first post-Beatle album, while the richly textured arrangements and melodic diversity recall Imagine. But Walls and Bridges also features an ingredient that those earlier confessionals conspicuously lacked: vintage Lennon humor, which can go a long way toward alleviating the potential heaviness of John's subject matter.

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This is the Avenue to Success for 12/06/09. Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.

Avenues to Success for 12/03/09

There is no dignity so impressive and no independence quite so important as living within your means.

     - Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, 30th President of the United States

Image source: American President, An Online Reference Source

10 Bits of Advice for College Students From Robert Brault

Here are 10 of Robert Brault's quotes to help college students succeed:

1. We all have our limitations, but when we bend to our critics, we also have theirs.
2. In MacArthur's words "duty, honor, country", you have the complete canon and, importantly, the right sequence. Indeed, if you have acted from duty and honor, you have already fulfilled all obligations to country.
3. Not all worries end up as water under the bridge or over the dam. Some evaporate.
4. There is a causal relationship between effort and achievement known to the underachiever as luck.
5. To meet someone, someone must meet you, and for that purpose, you must be yourself.
6. Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.
7. Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
8. Enjoy the little things, one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
9. I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,  but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar.
10. Most obstacles in life have no power to stop you but only to make you stop yourself.

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10 Bits of Advice for College Students Author Index

Avenues to Success for 12/02/09

Be willing to open new doors to experiences and to step boldly forth to explore strange new horizons.

   - Unknown

This is the Avenue to Success for 12/02/09. Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.

10 Bits of Advice for College Students from Calvin Coolidge

Here are 10 of Calvin Coolidge's quotes to help college students succeed:

Consumer Financial Protection Agency and Priviate Student Loans Explained

The blog Financial Adviser has an interesting post by Alex Bhaswara on November 14 that gives an understandable explanation of the Expanding Federal Regulation of Private Student Loans. This comes with the proposed creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency that  will expand federal oversight of non-federal private student loans.

Click here to read how, and why the regulation is necessary, and how the bill falls short in not regulation "gap loans."

Avenues to Success for 12/01/09

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

     - Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British author of novels, short stories and plays about crimes

Image source: Agatha Christie used her grandmother as a model for Miss Marple, new tapes reveal - read the article published Sept. 15, 2008 in the Telegraph.co.uk

This is the Avenue to Success for 12/01/09. Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.

Avenues to Success for 11/30/09

Results? Why man, I have gotten a lot of results, I know 50,000 things that won't work.

     - Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, American inventor

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This is the Avenue to Success for 11/30/09. Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.