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Tolerance Project extra The final Countdown The Rocky films Ranked

Round 1 The making of Rocky

Introduction

Hello there and welcome to the first part of a three part blog that looks at the Rocky Franchise part one of this blog looks at the making of Rocky (1976) part 2 covers the sequels and part 3 covers my memories of the franchise and what links it to the Tolerance project

Overview

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the first installment in the Rocky franchise and also stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith. In the film, Rocky Balboa (Stallone), a poor small-time club fighter and loanshark debt collector, gets an unlikely shot at the world heavyweight championship held by Apollo Creed (Weathers).

Rocky entered development in March 1975, after Stallone wrote the screenplay in three days. It entered a complicated production process after Stallone refused to allow the film to be made without him in the lead role; United Artists eventually agreed to cast Stallone after he rejected a six figure deal for the film rights. Principal photography began in January 1976, with filming primarily held in Philadelphia; several locations featured in the film, such as the Rocky Steps, are now considered cultural landmarks. With an estimated production budget of under $1 million, Rocky popularized the rags to riches and American Dream themes of sports dramas which preceded the film.

Budget

Rocky was made on a budget of $860,000

The Rocky series has become a pop culture phenomenon with its montages and theme music being entrenched into the very fabric of American media culture. The first Rocky movie was a box office smash and the highest-grossing movie of 1976 earning $225 million (via The Numbers.) This was all the more impressive as it was made on a budget of $860,000 and based on a screenplay that its star Sylvester Stallone wrote in just three days. By all accounts, Rocky was a triumph and paved the way for sequels, spin-offs, and a $1.8 billion franchise.

Writing Rocky

In an article for the Far out magazine Silvester Stalone revealed his main reasons for writing that first Rocky film in 1976.

When it came to the reasons for Stallone writing his debut, he once admitted that he had become frustrated with the cinema of the early 1970s. “I felt at the time that cinema, at least the movies I had been seeing, was at an all-time low,” Stallone noted. “Everything was anti-society, anti-Christ, anti-government, anti-everything, and there was no one to root for.”

He’d also felt that the time had come for movies with a strong sense of morality, like those from the 1940s and 1950s, to make a comeback. “I also feel that films are very cyclic, so I wanted to get back into the cycle of the films of 1940s and the 1950s where people say, ‘Hey, gee, I miss the good old films, yet Hollywood [hadn’t] made any good old fashioned type films where morality was at the forefront.’”

Stallone was then asked whether he thought he was a bit presumptuous in thinking that he would be able to take on the role of Rocky Balboa because his acting career had not exactly taken off as he had originally hoped. “That’s kind of you to say ‘small roles’,” the actor joked.

“I was known as atmosphere,” he continued, “I was in the background, the drunk that was being stepped over in the gutter and other lame roles. But I felt that if I was gonna go down into professional obscurity, I wanted to at least have the opportunity to say to myself, ‘Well, you tried. You put your best foot forward, and you didn’t make it’.”

That very notion of giving the film industry one last shot was another motivator for Stallone, and it’s quite similar to the very story of Rocky in a way. “I just knew that I had to do it one time, and I knew it was in me,” he said. As for what kind of man he wanted to be in the film? “An underdog.” How true.

This article by the screen rant website details an early plan for that would in their view have killed the franchise you can read the article by clicking here https://screenrant.com/rocky-sylvester-stallone-original-plan-bad-ruin-franchise/

Rocky had its premiere in New York City on November 20, 1976, and was released in the United States on December 3, 1976. Rocky became the highest-grossing film of 1976, earning approximately $225 million worldwide. The film received critical acclaim toward Stallone's writing, performance, the story, as well as the film's direction, music score, cinematography and editing; among other accolades.

Rocky the perfect boxing film

Recently the Collider film website published an article called the 25 films that are perfect from start to finish Rocky was on that list at number 14 this is what they said about Rocky

Underdog stories can be hard to resist, especially within the sports genre and particularly when they're as well-told as the one in Rocky. This wasn't Sylvester Stallone's first movie by any means, but it was the one that made him a star, and is perhaps the overall greatest film of his. On top of starring as the title character, he also wrote the screenplay, with the movie's story following a down-on-his-luck man in Philadelphia who strives for greatness when he's given the chance to fight the world's heavyweight boxing champion.

If anything about Rocky seems cheesy or clichéd, it's probably because the film was so influential that the vast majority of sports movies made in its wake likely took some inspiration from it, in one way or another. It's an underdog movie written by and starring an underdog, and the film's box office and awards success (it won three Oscars, including Best Picture) make it a stirring and inspiring film in more ways than one

Music Gonna fly now the Rocky Theme

If the Rocky sequence had made it into the Tolerance film we would have no doubt heard the the theme from Rocky AKA Gonna fly now.

"Gonna Fly Now", also known as "Theme from Rocky", is the theme song from the movie Rocky, composed by Bill Conti with lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins, and performed by DeEtta West and Nelson Pigford. Released in 1976 with Rocky, the song became part of 1970s American popular culture after the film's main character and namesake Rocky Balboa as part of his daily training regimen runs up the 72 stone steps leading to the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia and raises his arms in a victory pose, while the song plays.

The song (whose lyrics are only 30 words long) was nominated for Best Original Song at the 49th Academy Awards. The version of the song from the movie, performed by Conti with an orchestra, hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977, while a version by jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson hit the top 30. Disco versions by Rhythm Heritage and Current were on the chart at the same time (Conti's own version reveals some early disco influence in the orchestration). Billboard ranked Conti's version as the No. 21 song of 1977. Conti's single was certified Gold by the RIAA, for shipments exceeding one million in the United States. The American Film Institute placed it 58th on its AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list.

Gonna fly now recently topped a list in a screenrant article called all 9 Rocky Movie songs ranked this is what they said about Gonna fly now

Although it may seem obvious, "Gonna Fly Now" from the original Rocky is clearly the best theme song in the franchise. "Gonna Fly Now" is simply incredible, with the iconic track slowly building to an incredible burst of choral inspirations for the Italian Stallion. The original film uses it just sparingly enough that when it hits it is immensely impactful. Without "Gonna Fly Now," the original Rocky may not have been nearly as impactful. "Gonna Fly Now" is possibly the most iconic element from the Rocky franchise, which is why it has to be the best theme song of them all.

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In a recent article titled Silvester Stallone 18 best films ranked by the film website Rottern Tomatoes the first Rocky film was highest in the list at number 2 they had this to say about the 1976 classic boxing film.

Considered by many to be Stallone’s greatest cinematic achievement, Rocky is the sports drama masterpiece about a down-on-his-luck boxer who gets the chance to enter the ring with the reigning world heavyweight champion. Stallone’s script and performance in the title role are both excellent, making for an unforgettable classic that will never go out of fashion.

The Boxing news website also had this to say about Rocky in their article 10 boxing films to watch before you die. Rocky was number 3 in their list

As iconic and important as any boxing film, the original Rocky, released in 1976, has probably done more for the sport in terms of attracting people to either watch it or participate in it than any other on this list. It also launched the career of Sylvester Stallone.

Awards

Rocky was nominated for 10 Oscars in 1977 from those nominations it took home 3 awards it won 2 of the main awards for best director for John G Avidson to watch the acceptance of the best director award by John G Avidson

and Best Picture to see the award for best Picture for Rocky click here

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as well as the award for best editing for Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad

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Further Watching

Click here to watch 10 things you didn’t know about Rocky

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Click here to watch WTF Happened to Rocky 1976 the true story behind the making of the film

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Pictures

The Gonna fly now single cover

Silvestor Stalone as Rocky with Talia Shire as his wife Adrian

poster for the original Rocky film*

Notes

* The poster for the original Rocky film was included in the Collider film website article 25 best movie posters of all time the Rocky poster landed at number 16 in this list these are their comments about what made this poster so good.

There are a couple of similar posters often seen for the original Rocky, with the variations making it difficult to track down one person who can be given credit for them. Stylistically, they're similar to the aforementioned Scarface poster, making use of striking black and white colors and bold text up the top. One well-known variation depicts a silhouette of Rocky Balboa and love interest Adrian holding hands, while the arguably better-known version has him standing atop the staircase to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

This latter poster utilizes the same strategy as the La Dolce Vita poster, emphasizing one of the film's most iconic elements in a visually distinct and eye-catching way. And the simplicity works, partly because Rocky is a fairly simple yet utterly satisfying underdog sports movie, with the titular character appearing triumphant in the poster, even if he's shown to be a relatively small part of said poster. The image suggests he's standing up to the world, in a sense, and striving to defy the odds, which is indeed what he aims to do throughout the movie itself.

This wasn’t the original plan for the poster though as Silvester Stallone revealed on his own website In a recent Instagram post, Stallone shared an image of the first poster ever made to promote the film Rocky.

The hand drawn image by the American graphic designer and artist Tom Jung is the only one known to exist. One of the most interesting aspects of this piece is the characters selected for inclusion, and those that are missing. Check out this great piece of Rocky history. Click on the link below https://www.instagram.com/p/BeBh7kaD80r/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=013beca0-0b1b-4203-ba61-dd8c25894a46

Thanks as well to You tube for the academy award footage Wikpeda for the background information on Rocky and his theme song Gonna Fly now and google images for the pictures

Coming soon

Part 2 The Rocky sequels

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jules-has-notes · 5 months ago

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Aca Top 10: Movie Themes — VoicePlay music video

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Who doesn't love a good story? When it comes to movies, music can be a powerful part of the worldbuilding and storytelling, and few pieces of music have become more recognizable than those epic theme songs. So gather your favorite snacks, find a comfortable seat, and let these talented fellows show you some of the most iconic cinematic tunes from the last several decades.

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title: Aca Top 10 – Movie Themes (feat. Rob Lundquist)

original songs / performers: "Hedwig's Theme" from the Harry Potter series; [0:35] Beetlejuice main title theme; [0:49] The Good, the Bad & the Ugly main theme; [1:04] "The Raiders March" (aka "The Indiana Jones Theme") from Raiders of the Lost Ark; [1:24] Jurassic Park theme; [1:50] Mission: Impossible theme; [2:16] Batman (1989) theme; [2:29] "The Godfather Waltz" main title theme from The Godfather; [2:52] "Gonna Fly Now" by DeEtta Little & Nelson Pigford for Rocky; [3:18] Star Wars main title theme

written by: "Hedwig's Theme" by John Williams; Beetlejuice main title theme by Danny Elfman ; The Good, the Bad & the Ugly main theme by Ennio Morricone; "The Raiders March" by John Williams; Jurassic Park theme by John Williams; Mission: Impossible theme by Lalo Schifrin ; Batman (1989) theme by Danny Elfman; "The Godfather Waltz" by Nino Rota; "Gonna Fly Now" by Bill Conti, Carol Connors, & Ayn Robbins; Star Wars main title theme by John Williams

arranged by: Geoff Castellucci

release date: 4 September 2020

My favorite bits:

magically summoning their guest 🪄✨

Rob kicking things off with a clear high melody

that gravelly Beetlejuice voice from J.None

Layne's percussion being muffled by the plate across his mouth 🤐

impressive whistling by Rob on that iconic western theme

the upper corners dodging bullets from Rob's finger guns

Layne joining Geoff for some bassy Indiana Jones harmonies

J's triumphant tone on "The Raiders March"

Geoff giving a decent whipcrack before realising it's a snake 🐍

the rippling visual effect on the Jurassic Park growl

the bottom row getting spooked by the dino roar 🦖

Eli's nimble riffing on the Mission: Impossible theme

"This town needs an enema." 🤢

Geoff getting smacked in the chin, but rubbing his forehead

the return of the carrot drumstick 🥁🥁

Eli and J putting up their dukes 🥊

those harmonies on the final Rocky fanfare

dimming the lighting in the final transition to hide a cut to a different take

adding a soda slurp as part of the Darth Vader sound effects 🥤

poor Eli not having enough time to actually eat any popcorn 🍿

Geoff and Rob doing pretty good Han Solo and Chewbacca impressions

Layne's adorable R2-D2 noises 🤖

Trivia:

○ This music video was half of a two-part collaboration. The other half is an episode of Rob's movie podcast, The Avid Indoorsmen, released the day before.

○ This was VoicePlay's second time filming a video with Rob at a distance. Home Free's half of their "Survivor" collaboration was recorded at their local studio in Minnesota with only Layne on hand to direct.

○ The guys' shirts reflect some of the movies in the countdown.

Geoff — "The Handbook for the Recently Deceased" book cover from Beetlejuice (+ bonus Ghostbusters 2 logo shirt in the outro)

Layne — Harry Potter parody of the Disney castle logo with Hogwarts and a person riding a broom in place of Tinkerbell (h/t to @acaplaya-musings for the correction)

Eli — helmet of Boba Fett from Star Wars with two crossed blasters angled upward beneath, in the style of a Jolly Roger pirate flag

Rob — the Jurassic Park logo

J.None — logo for Mighty Mick's boxing gym from Rocky

○ Geoff's Ghostbusters 2 shirt in the outro is reminiscent of his early days as a theme park performer at Universal Studios. He was a cast member in a street show called "Extreme Ghostbusters: The Great Fright Way", which featured Beetlejuice causing mischief at the New York Public Library façade.

○ The Beetlejuice theme song was particularly familiar to Geoff, J.None, and production manager Kathy. They'd played Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and the Bride, respectively, in various iterations of the Beetlejuice stage show at Universal Studios. There were many, many VoicePlay and PattyCake collaborators among their castmates.

monsters get a visit from their mundane friend // "Blackula" and Deejay Wolfie in the show's final incarnation

○ VoicePlay had previously used the Mission: Impossible theme as part of a mashup with "Jingle Bells" to help promote the home media release of M:I Fallout in 2018.

○ Layne and Tony had integrated the Batman theme into an Imagine Dragons song for PattyCake's "Batman: Whatever It Takes" music video two years earlier.

○ VoicePlay had already dipped their toes in the Star Wars pool in a much sillier way with their video of "What Do You Get a Wookiee for Christmas?" during the 2015 holiday season.

○ The Star Wars sequel cast had filmed an a cappella version of the main theme with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots for The Tonight Show in advance of the premiere of The Force Awakens in 2015.

○ Fellow a cappella group May Tree recorded their own cover of the Star Wars theme in the spring of 2021.

#VoicePlay #Rob Lundquist #music video #a cappella #music #music from movies #video #series: Aca Top 10 #carrot shenanigans

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smallrepose · 5 years ago

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to face the future with one another, who means more than any other, is to belong - “Tomorrow Is Another Day” by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins, from The Rescuers

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#doodles #inktober #inktober2020 #day 6 #rodent #smallrepose #The Rescuers #Tomorrow is Another Day #Carol Connors #Ayn Robbins

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harrypotterhousequotes · 6 years ago

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GRYFFINDOR:

"In a jam, in a scrape And you think, 'no escape' Do not fear, we'll be here Courageous are we"

--Carol Connors + Ayn Robbins (The Rescuers: Rescue Aid Society)

#harry potter #house quotes #gryffindor #the rescuers #rescue aid society #carol connors #ayn robbins #hphq

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maaarine · 6 years ago

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evancarmichael · 7 years ago

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Top 100 Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational quotes and motivational quotes have the power to get us through a bad week, and can even give us the courage to pursue our life’s dreams. Here are 100 inspirational quotes: 1. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse 2. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill 3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein 4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost 5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale 6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky 7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan 8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart 9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth 10. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone 11. We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism. –Kevin Kruse 12. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon 13. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale 14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain 15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll 16. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker 17. The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha 18. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb 19. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates 20. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen 21. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs 22. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi 23. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey 24. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso 25. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus 26. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou 27. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn 28. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford 29. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain 30. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 31. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra 32. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar 33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin 34. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh 35. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle 36. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus 37. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson 38. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau 39. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck 40. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington 41. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb 42. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt 43. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair 44. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato 45. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides 46. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe 47. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon 48. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb 49. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller 50. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius 51. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank 52. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu 53. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou 54. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama 55. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg 56. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle 57. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb 58. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown 59. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie 60. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown 61. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine 62. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington 63. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci 64. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti 65. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong 66. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan 67. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin 68. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby 69. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein 70. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb 71. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach 72. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot 73. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey 74. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh 75. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown 76. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers 77. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren 78. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray 79. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens 80. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser 81. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks 82. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius 83. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey 84. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama 85. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou 86. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan 87. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr. 88. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt 89. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins 90. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem 91. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison 92. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills 93. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt 94. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses 95. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand 96. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford 97. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln 98. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale 99. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin 100. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn 101. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs 102. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

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mitchipedia · 6 years ago

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Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature [Conversations With Tyler]. Why the 1840s and 1850s are seminal decades in American history, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a great read even today, and more.

Robbins, scholar of African American history and literature, is dean at Sonoma State University. She joins Tyler Cowen "to discuss 19th-century life and literature and more, including why the 1840s were a turning point in US history, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Calvinism, whether 12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained are appropriate portraits of slavery, the best argument for reparations, how prepaid postage changed America, the second best Herman Melville book, why Ayn Rand and Margaret Mitchell are ignored by English departments, growing up the daughter of a tech entrepreneur, and why teachers should be like quarterbacks."

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Did you have any favorite authors growing up? Are any of them still your favorite? I am just curious what great writers consider as great writing.

When I was a kid, my dad read to my brother and me most every night. I don’t know what he started with, but he read us the entire Little House on the Prarie series, The Hobbit and then The Lord of the Rings, The Belgariad by David Eddings, Watership Down, and then possibly my favorite at the time, all of the Narnia books by C. S. Lewis.

I was mildly obsessed with Lewis Carol when I started to read on my own, and then as a teenager, I feel in love with T. H. White and The Once and Future King. When I was fifteen I began to devour everything by Dumas, and I must have read The Three Musketeers ten times.

I loved the poetry of Neruda, E.E. Cummings, and Shakespeare.

I also plowed through more science fiction and fantasy than I can every remember, mostly borrowed from my older brother with Terry Pratchett being a big favorite. I tried to read Ayn Rand and couldn’t, but I loved Tom Robbins and read all of his books as they came out.

A girlfriend in high school introduced me to written smut, and I read Anais Nin right alongside Anne Rice before getting a copy of The Pearl somewhere. And of course, I always loved Penthouse letters when I could find them.

In college, I read Tony Morrison, Mario Vargas Llosa, and then horrible crap like Fredrick Jameson and Roland Barthes.

I’m still fond of many of them if not all. But while I always intend to go back and read old favorites I instead get caught up in new things.

And that went on longer than it should and I still feel like I’m missing things.

Thanks for asking!

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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving. Ayn Rand

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. Sylvia Plath

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin

Aim higher in case you fall short. Suzanne Collins

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived. Eleanor Roosevelt

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination. Roman Payne

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. Mandy Hale

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. Bruce Lee

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. Napoleon Hill

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. Shannon L. Alder

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Rabindranath Tagore

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. E. Joseph Cossman

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo Buonarroti

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone. Shannon L. Alder

If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don’t have enough goals. Lou Holtz

Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals. Roy T. Bennett

People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them. Anthony Robbins

There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. Will Smith

While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success. Steve Maraboli

I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down. Mia Hamm

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts. Roopleen

Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams. Ray A. Davis

Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique. Roy T. Bennett

What keeps me going is goals. Muhammad Ali

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal. Elbert Hubbard

Don’t let your plans or goals become more important than yourself, or the ones you care about! José N. Harris

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20 Warren Buffet

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Brian Tracy

Just pick a goal and stick to it , no big complicated secret. Richelle E. Goodrich

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals. Booker T. Washington

Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination. Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination. Roy T. Bennett

Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned. Stacy Verdick Case

It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal. Steve Maraboli

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It’s no coincidence we call them ‘deadlines. Tom Robbins

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. Hermann Hesse

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Arnold Joseph Toynbee

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream. C.S.Lewis

Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for. Roy T. Bennett

A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal. Marty Rubin

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work. Richard Bach

Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it? Shannon L. Alder

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving. Ayn Rand

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. Roy Bennett

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it. Richelle E. Goodrich

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. David J. Schwartz

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. Bill Copeland

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender. David Allen

Your ultimate goal should be partners with your ultimate fear. Lionel Suggs

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish. Martha Stewart

A goal properly set is halfway reached. Zig Ziglar

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. Rensis Likert

If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive. Kristin Armstrong

Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention. Steve Maraboli

If you are not able to see your goals, they will take longer to achieve, and sometimes “longer” is “never.” Honoree Corder

Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal. Roy Bennett

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements. Derrick A. Bell

With your goal you make the one. Dejan Stojanovic

We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world. Hark Herald Sarmiento

The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train. John Milton Lawrence

Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you’ve met them. Erin Kissane

We weren’t born to create excuses, we were born to create excellence. Janna Cachola

Find the small goals within your large goals, and work on them. Kevin J. Donaldson

There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Achieving your goals depends more on the way you manage to push through the bad days, than shine on the good ones. Lorri Faye

If you aren’t constantly focused on your goals, you can easily waste all of the time, energy and money you invest in pursuing them. Rob Liano

Believe in yourself, your dreams, wishes, desires and goals, even if others don’t. Lily Amis

Happiness does not result from pleasure, but rather, from reaching one’s goals. H.W. Charles

Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary. Joanne Van Leerdam

Take time to define your own goals and stay focused on achieving them. You’re your own competition.” K.J. Kilton

A core group of guys, all sharing similar goals, can move mountains. Chris Matakas

Goals want to be realized as soon as they’re created. Zoltan Andrejkovics

Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set? Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences. George Leonard

If achieving a desired goal was easy why would anyone bother. There’d be no fun. Veronica Purcell

The biggest payoff in achieving a goal is not what you get, but who you’ve become. Joan Posivy

It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal. Andrzej Sapkowski

Aim deliberately at goal and stay focus to fulfill it. Lailah Gifty Akita

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting. Perhaps we’re asking for something good when God’s will is that we be given something great. Marianne Williamson

If I stress about a goal, I won’t remember to find the way to get there. Zoltan Andrejkovics

Life is a miracle and your most important goal in life is to protect this miracle. You have one more goal which is as important as this one and that is to protect the other miracles, the lives of others! Mehmet Murat ildan

Whatever the goal, small, daily investments can bring big results. Michael Hyatt

If people are not launching at your goals, your goals are too small Alex Haditaghi

Managing a goal is the best way to guarantee reaching it. Asuni LadyZeal

A life without goals is like flotsam that is governed by the tides and winds of fate. Steven Redhead

Never give up on your goals or dreams, no matter how hard the challenges might seem. Cliff Hannold

When you find a way to incorporate your goals and dreams with what you enjoy most, then you have found success! Lindsey Rietzsch

Every goal has a road block; that is our fear of failure. Debasish Mridha

When you are complaining and gossiping all day, I bet 100 people are willing to listen. Wait until the conversation changes to goals, plans or ideas. You will lose the interest of most. Troy Gathers

The more belief and confidence we feel toward achieving our goal, the higher the probability of our making the changes required to hit our targets. Michael Hyatt

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends. Arthur C. Clarke

Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction. Matt Haig

Quit beating yourself up, beat your goals up instead. Chinonye J. Chidolue

Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life. Lailah Gifty Akita

What might be your current goal can motivate you in some situations. For like when you priority something and you have loose ends on it, it will make your back itch. Alberto D. Bautista

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success. Suzy Kassem

I intend to achieve my goals during my lifetime, but if I fail, I will not rest even in the afterlife Bangambiki Habyarimana

Too much hurry will bury your goals. Too much haste will make you waste. Too quick race will cripple your pace. Be patient. Israelmore Ayivor

Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but merely a happening. Richelle E. Goodrich

Remember, your goals are your goals. People may not want to go as far as you. Troy Gathers

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Once Upon A Time....Part 1/2

12th May 2017. Thursday

Once upon a time, in a land far far away there lived a little boy. A boy who was addicted to stories.

Every night till I was about twelve or so, she would tell me a story. No matter how sleepy or busy she was, no matter how sleepy I was. My Foi ( father’s sister) fired my neural pathways every night with stories that were made up, sometimes they even involved me, firing my imagination, often they would repeat but she would twist the plot delighting me with an unexpected ending to a familiar story.

Slowly the professionals took over and from Hardy Boys to Sydney Sheldon, Harold Robbins, Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, Frederick Forsyth, Danielle Steele, Stephen King and their ilk told me stories. Lots of stories.

I went for voyages in the Cosmos with Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, was introduced to religions of the world by Osho. Ayn Rand had got the teenager all fired up with ambition, Lee Iacocca, Jack Welch and like told me stories about the world of big business. Robert Persig and Fritjof Kapra got me interested in Physics and the intersection of science with religion. Adam Smith, John Maynard Kaynes told stories of Economics and Karl Marx to an alternative egalitarian society. Kotler to marketing

The Upanishads full of stories, Mahabharata is arguably the greatest story ever told, Jataka tales, Panchatantra, Aesop’s fables, Greek mythology, Indian Mythology,Alladin, Alibaba, Sindbad, Gulliver, Cinderella, Snow White and her seven dwarfs, Shravan’s dedication to his parents, Raja Harishchandra and his truthful demeanor regardless of the price he paid, I don’t know how many stories live in me and how many are a part of me without even realizing.

Then the Biographies and Autobiographies of Men and Women across time each told a fascinating story. The dramas of Shakespeare giving us an insight into human emotions and personality types.

This is one topic I can go on, so I will stop here before I get lost in this. The point I wanted to make is long before we invented writing on stone and metal, humans have told stories. Anthropologist confirm that societies no matter how ancient always had stories in their core fabric. So why do we tell stories ?

Take a protagonist, put him/her in a situation, create conflict with a stronger, more powerful opponent with negative shades, build it to where it appears that the nice guy will lose and end with triumph of good vs evil. Can you imagine how many stories across the world across time have been built on this simple premise?

We tell stories to teach, to impart values, morals, ethics, we tell stories to fire imagination, cognitive participation, a well told story brings tears, joy, thrill, fear, all emotions the protagonist goes through. A story puts us in situations we are unlikely to experience ourselves but through it, we experience an alternative but possible reality.

Every human social interaction is an exchange of stories. Jokes are stories with an unexpected twist, gossips are stories, movies are stories brought to life and plays are stories enacted, poetries are stories in rhythm and songs are poetries composed to music. Television including soaps, documentaries and even news are stories.

So what are the stories you have grown up on ? Pause and think and share with me like I just did. We are never really old to go back to stories like I did for the magical world of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter.

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