by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 29, 2024 | Limitless Possibilities, Overcoming Failure, Refusing to Quit
“Don’t listen to those who say, ‘It’s not done that way.’ Maybe it’s not, but you’ll do it anyway. Don’t listen to those who say, ‘You’re taking too big a chance.’ Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, which would surely be rubbed out today.” ...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 8, 2024 | Enhanced Perspective, Limitless Possibilities, Overcoming Failure
“The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.” Will Rogers 2009 – Worchester, Massachusetts: Michael Vaudreuil made the cold walk to his small apartment after his second...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jun 17, 2022 | Adversity, Never Quit, Overcoming Failure
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” Edward R. Murrow May 20, 1990 – Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas: The Hubble telescope team of scientists, astronomers, engineers and physicists eagerly awaited the first pictures from the...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 18, 2020 | Long Shots, Overcoming Adversity, Overcoming Failure
1955 – Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: Some diseases killed, polio crippled children for a lifetime. Since the first epidemic in the summer of 1894 in Vermont, polio had become the disease most feared by parents. It struck children without warning, frequently causing muscle...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 10, 2020 | Against the Odds, Never Give Up, Overcoming Failure
August 3, 2008 – Kwajalein Atoll, South Pacific Ocean: On a tiny 8-acre island, almost 5,000 miles southwest of Honolulu, his 70-foot tall Falcon 1 rocket sat on the launch pad. Liftoff was perfect and at nine miles up the first stage separation was also perfect. Then...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 9, 2018 | Adversity, Finding Hope, Overcoming Failure, Uncategorized
July 9, 1974 – Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: He arrived at the federal minimum security prison at Maxwell to begin serving his three-year sentence. It was a somber day, full of remorse and remembering. At 38-years-old he had been on top of the...
