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Solo_RV_Guy · 10-07-2021, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TexasJeff

"Just show up."

This was a statement made to me by a local politician when I asked him how he achieved his measure of success. I've never forgotten this piece of advice.

I was told "you'll never play the game if you don't suit up and show up." It's amazing how many things a person can help with, work out, or end up in charge of simply by attending meetings and saying "yes" when the call for help comes.

ratherberv · 10-08-2021, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Solo_RV_Guy

I was told "you'll never play the game if you don't suit up and show up." It's amazing how many things a person can help with, work out, or end up in charge of simply by attending meetings and saying "yes" when the call for help comes.

I tell people about my job, "They didn't ask if I knew what I was doing, they just asked if I were willing to do it. I messed up and said 'yes'!

MSHappyCampers · 10-08-2021, 10:04 AM

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That's how galaxies are made! Tyler Kent White

TexasJeff · 10-08-2021, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by MSHappyCampers

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That's how galaxies are made! Tyler Kent White

I think I burned too brightly in the 70s and am paying for it today. LOL..

“They misunderestimated me.”
― George W. Bush

TexasJeff · 10-09-2021, 05:56 AM

"What you got ain't nothin' new. This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity."

Ellis (Barry Corbin), No Country for Old Men

Marine359 · 10-10-2021, 08:33 AM

“We’ve done so much for so long with so little, we’ll soon be able to do anything, forever, with nothing.”

Marine LtGen Vandergrift during Battle of Guadalcanal

DonavonP · 10-10-2021, 06:20 PM

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MSHappyCampers · 10-11-2021, 06:53 AM

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person- Tara Westover

ratherberv · 10-11-2021, 07:13 AM

"Getting old ain't for sissies" - Robert D. Raiford

Rixthe1 · 10-11-2021, 07:17 AM

“The powers delegated, by the proposed constitution, to the federal government, are few and defined.” James Madison.

“Power corrupts, absolute power, corrupts absolutely! “

NITEHAWK · 10-11-2021, 07:20 AM

Always stand upwind from an old man

TexasJeff · 10-11-2021, 09:00 AM

Didn't know this.. MAGA did not originate with Donald Trump...

"The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace the end objective, which is to make America great again."

Lee Iacocca