Self-improvement thread! (pls no negativity or politics)

[Whale biologist]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it,

to work day and night for it,

To give up your time, your peace, and your sleep for it

If all that you dream and scheme is about it,

and life seems useless and worthless without it,

And if you'd gladly sweat for it and prep for it and plan for it,

and lose all your terror of the opposition for it

And if you simply go after that thing that you want,

with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity,

faith, hope, and confidence and stern pertinacity

If neither cold, poverty, famine, nor gout,

sickness, nor pain of body and brain,

can keep you away from the thing that you want

If dogged and grim you beseech and beset it,

with the help of God, YOU WILL GET IT!"

-- Les Brown

This Les Brown fella seems to style himself a chimpanzee type of Rudyard Kipling in 'If'. The seminal work is much better.