Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Rod Serling's Inspiring Graduation Speech - 1968
Have you ever watched Twilight Zone re-runs on TV? Serling, who wrote 92 of the 156 scripts, had a flair for the written word. Part of his childhood was spent in Binghamton, N.Y., where I attended college. The influence of upstate New York is evident in a handful of his scripts.
Twenty five years after his own high school graduation, he returned to his alma mater to deliver one of the most inspiring and timeless speeches you'll ever read.
Excerpt from Binghamton High School Commencement Speech, 1968:
... always do the things that you believe. Don't become monuments—sway with the wind. Change opinions, if the change is natural and believed. But believe in something and fight for those beliefs. Honor them by your commitment. Further them by your effort.
And what a wondrous and what an incredibly grand world you might build for your children. Now this millennium may not be in sight, let alone in reach. The route to it may be pretty damned close to impassible. It may be as distant and as complicated to reach as the moon or another solar system. BUT IT IS THERE! It's there for the taking, the asking and the fighting. And the rhetorical question—are you tough enough—I think is already answered by simply the look of you and the feeling that's in the room. Indeed, you're tough enough. And you're also human enough and sensitive enough and caring enough.
Full text: http://www.rodserling.com/01281968.htm
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Keeping a Clean Rubber Room
How do you keep track of a book's readers? By the products they buy on Amazon.
I'm proud to say that UYRR readers pay great attention to personal hygiene and cleanliness.
Customers Who Bought UYRR Today Also Bought:
The Original California Mini Duster
and a few weeks ago...
Waterpik Ultra Dental Water Jet
I'm now inspired to clean up my own act.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Recent Book Review
Jim Pawlak of The Dallas Morning News was kind enough to review "Unlocking Your Rubber Room":
Dallas Morning News
Binder's 44 Lessons "make so much sense."
Free registration: http://tinyurl.com/kwkpsy
Reprinted in:
The Sillicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/07/06/smallb2.html
The Denton Record Chronicle
http://tinyurl.com/lzf65t
WFAA.com
http://tinyurl.com/lnyz3s
Dallas Morning News
Binder's 44 Lessons "make so much sense."
Free registration: http://tinyurl.com/kwkpsy
Reprinted in:
The Sillicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/07/06/smallb2.html
The Denton Record Chronicle
http://tinyurl.com/lzf65t
WFAA.com
http://tinyurl.com/lnyz3s
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