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LEADERSHIP
WORD OF THE WEEK:
QUITTING
LEADERSHIP
QUOTES OF THE WEEK:
"No
one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off
the ship in the storm."
Charles F. Kettering
"We can
do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."
Helen Keller
"Ninety
percent of all those who fail are not actually
defeated....they simply quit." Paul J. Meyer
"Fight
the tendency to quit while you're behind." Dave
Weinbaum
"Most
people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible
conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit."
Robert Schuller
"The victory
will go to the one who does not quit!"
Van Crouch
"There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going
on."
William Blake
HISTORICAL
PROFILE
The Panama Canal
The concept of a canal across the narrowest
portion of Central America dates back to the 16th
century. Without it, shipping from the east coast to the west
entailed a long and treacherous route via the Drake Passage and
Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America. A trip that
from New York to San Francisco demanded a vessel covering
approximately 14,000 miles.
The first real attempt at building the canal
began in 1880 financed and ran by the government of France. At
that time it was the most difficult and largest engineering
project ever undertaken. The French battled malaria, yellow
fever, sub-tropical heat, and extended rainy seasons. In 24
years they lost 21,900 workers, most to the fevers. They left
their equipment and quit the project.
The
United States,
under President
Theodore
Roosevelt
(with
John
Frank Stevens
as Chief Engineer from 1905-1907), bought out the French
equipment and excavation rights. With the no-nonsense, can
do leadership that Teddy Roosevelt brought to the table; the
work began on
May 4,
1904.
Ten years and 5,000 lives later the Panama Canal opened in
1914. In the amazing story of the resiliency and ingenuity the
Americans utilized throughout the project was the fact that
while accomplishing the amazing feat they also solved the
mysteries of the Yellow Fever and Malaria!
Today, some 40 vessels per day flow through the
Panama Canal, each only spending some nine hours total, from
Ocean to Ocean.
SCRIPTURE
John 6:66
From that time
many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him
Galatians 6:9
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not.
"It is amazing what we
may accomplish, if quitting is not an option!" JAS
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