touchstone quotations: Jim Tressel on Active Believing

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Jim Tressel on Active Believing

That's why when we present success as a journey, we talk about having a plan and dreams. And then we have to go to work on those plans and dreams, all the while handling adversity and success. The key to all that is belief. Belief that we can do the task. Belief that we will do the task. Active believing reinforces the other fundamentals and helps make us winners.

Jim Tressel

Source: The Winners Manual
by Jim Tressel with Chris Fabry
(c) 2008 Tyndale House Publishers, p. 121

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013