No matter how far your imagination can stretch or what you can think of, you can get anything you want if you give it all you have got. Determination is the key to following your dreams, proven in the story “Raymond’s Run” as well as The Duck Song. Squeaky is out to pursue her dreams and keep her reputation as a runner. Her tenaciousness lets her see her goal and find a way to get to it like a GPS finding a destination. But when Squeaky fails she doesn’t give up, she tries again either at something
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What does success mean to you? A dictionary defines success as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose, but is this accurate for everyone? Most people would tell you that being successful is being looked up to or by doing better than others. At what point do you consider yourself to be successful or not? Personally I believe that being successful is doing what you want with your life and should only be defined by yourself, not others. For example the only person that I think should consider my
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1. Success is a word that hard to define. Everyone will have a different definition for success such as for a student, the success means to pass all the courses; for a businessman, get a lot of money and signs contracts; for a present; to control the world and people have a better life. For me, to achieve my goal, empower myself, and work hard. Nothing is beautiful in life has been accomplishment without determination and confidence. 2. I am from Egypt; the country that has a great culture and intelligent
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Some people have heard the saying “The only place success comes before work is the dictionary.” This is one of many lessons in the book Kon-Tiki, that you have to work hard in order to be successful. When Thor Heyerdahl first had the theory that the Polynesians had sailed across the ocean on balsa rafts, nobody believed him. There was to much research on all other ways that no one wanted to say that those could be wrong. He had to keep trying different people to see who would believe him, and eventually
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Failure is something we learn from, it is something that makes us grow as a person. I am a firm believer that in order to be successful you need to fail along the way. When I think about a time that I experience failure, I automatically think about the math class that I failed my sophomore year of high school. Sophomore year was a bad year for me. I was always rather unhappy and because of this my grades were affected. Prior to this class school had always come easy to me, especially math. My school
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Malcolm Gladwell portrayed the prominent message of achieving success through coincidence, luck and the individual’s passion for the matter in his book “Outliers”. Success starts with opportunity, this is exemplified when Gladwell provided a chart containing information about one of Canada’s National Hockey teams players, and in this chart the players birthdates were shown to prominantly in the months of January, Febuary, and March. This is because in Canada the eligibility cutoff for age class
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foundation of personal success; it is the amount of contentment or happiness with what they have created for themselves, obtained for themselves, or the goals they accomplished in their lifetime. Satisfaction one feels with who they are as a person, as well as the light they see both various material components and intangible, non-physical aspects of life are ways personal success is measured. A house, the number in your bank account, and cars are all examples of external success measured by physical
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Benjamin Franklin once said, “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” That quote described Franklin's portrayal of life in one sentence. Hard work and success go hand in hand, and while Benjamin Franklin and Washington Irving both write passages regarding it, they both have two different ideas or approaches with it. In Benjamin Franklin’s The Way to Wealth, Franklin establishes a firm belief in what it means to be hard working and in Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle
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When it comes to the subject of success, and how to obtain it, it is almost impossible to find an agreement on how people feel like you can achieve such a thing. We see a prime example of this debate in Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller. In this play, the characters Happy, Willy and Biff all struggle with the challenge of obtaining success. Though the three share the belief that the approval of others control success, they contrast in their belief on how important others approval is in
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Practice makes perfect. In Outliers: Story of Success written by Malcolm Gladwell shows you what you must do to reach that level of greatness and achievement. Gladwell discusses some very good points into this research discussing him claim for the research, his reasoning behind or for the research and his evidence for the research of perfection. There is a reason why there is so much greatness in this world. For Gladwell, this pathway to perfection is through practice. Practice makes perfect
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