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Re: Some Heroes

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Post by Alex3917 »

"I used to read a lot of novels when I was younger. I can't read most anymore, because they don't have enough information in them."

This is a good one to add to the list of things not to say on a first date. And if it does somehow come up, at least have enough sense not to follow it with "I also don't read biographies/memoirs because I consider them fiction."

/Don't ask

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Post by jwp »

Kevin Garnett plays exactly the same way that you describe Jack Lambert. He goes only one speed: full blast. Whenever I need motiviation, I find myself asking myself, wwkgd?

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Post by nonrecursive »

One of my heroes: O Sensei, Morihei Ueshiba. He definitely cared excessively about his "work", and was absolutely honest. He invented aikido, the "art of peace", whose broad purpose is to "make human beings one family."

Here's a decent video of him: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0XTlWDOQBno&feature=related

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Post by edw519 »

My favorite Jack Lambert story:

1977 Pro Bowl. AFC defense - 8 Pittsburgh Steelers and 3 players from other teams on the field at the same time. Jack Lambert, the middle linebacker and captain, was calling out defensive signals using the Steelers' proprietary lingo. One of the other players asked, "What should we do?" Lambert replied, "Stay out of our way."

Second favorite Jack Lambert story:

When accused by a referee of biting another player in the finger, Lambert said, "I didn't bite his finger and I can prove it." "How?" the referee asked. "He's still got it, doesn't he?"

One of the best teams ever with one of the best players ever. And no one "danced" after making a great play. They just did a great job and acted as if they had done that job before and intended to do it again. Man, how I miss that. Thanks for the memories, pg.

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Post by zach »

Fun to read.

I recently found this quote from a contemporary author:

  “Jane Austen writes about people with desperately restricted
   lives codified by iron rules.  The first thing she does is to
   choose a genre, the romantic novel, which is exactly the kind
   of book those women would read if they were reading books.”
That illustrates to me a unique approach, where even the genre of the work itself serves the overall message and theme of the work.

And let me put in a word for Walt Disney, who I totally dismissed until I read about him. The parallels between his personality and that of Steve Jobs are fascinating.

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Post by henning »

Another list: Gary Gordon, Randy Shughart, the Finnish anti-armor teams in the mostly-forgotten Winter War against the Soviets (> 80% casualties), and the 300 Spartans who held off the Persians at Thermopylae.
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