Posted on 11/24/2017 12:44:53 PM PST by simpson96
Michelle Obama has a history of making pithy, inspirational remarks. Earlier today, the former First Lady spoke at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut. During that speech she encapsulated in six short words the key to being truly successful:
"Focus on what you can control."
Why is this quote so important? Because when you direct your attention to things you can't control, you're wasting your energy. However, when you focus on what you can control, you're moving closer to your goals.
The most common case of focusing on the uncontrollable in business is trying to bend other people to your will. The manager who orders people about never gets very far; it's the leaders who inspire that change the world.
(snip)
While I definitely feel that these six short words are the gist of great wisdom, I would be remiss if I didn't include some other inspirational Michelle Obama quotes to give them context. Here are my favorites:
"Being smart is cooler than anything in the world."
"Choose people who lift you up."
"Find people who will make you better."
"Remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you."
"Success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square."
"Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own."
"The one thing people can't take away from you is your education."
"There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made."
"When you're not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch."
"Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."
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On the level of personal behavior, yes, Bill and Barack did what they want.
But, when it came to harnessing, directing, and riding raw political talent, I submit the women played a major role. Bill was too undisciplined to get all the way to the top without the ambitious and driving Hillary whipping him on and cleaning up behind him. I’m not as sure about Mooch, but she clearly enjoyed her ride to glory.
My Fathers inspirational words as said to a whining Teenager (me, way back when), “nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work”.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) [R2-D2 and Chewbacca are playing the holographic game aboard the Millennium Falcon]
Certainly Obama did not get himself into the WH. Ayers jump started the process with the Dreams book, and Michelle’s political connections helped too. Ultimately, though, it was Soros and his money/machine that put Obama in power.
Hillary definitely did the clean up. In that sense she was the ultimate enabler, silencing Bill’s women one way or another.
If Hillary were more effective overall she wouldn’t have been such a disastrous candidate (twice).
Michelle comes off looking attractive to the Left bc all her venues are controlled and friendly. If she had to debate someone like Trump it would be a debacle.
Jmo.
She left off “Get born to a rich white daddy.”
And other uplifting memes.
Get politically connected. Then get a 300k a year “no show” job?
“When they go low, we go high”
What a laughable ridiculous quote from a perpetually whiny and negative woman. Chewbacca: Worst FLOTUS of all time, Kankles of course being THE WORST.
“The manager who orders people about never gets very far”-
Trump never got very far.
“Moochie, You`re fired!”
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meh
Plagerism is not inspiring
Mooch didnt control him. She was a homely girl who was barely smart enough to get an AA entry into the ivys, focused only on the chip on her shoulder, went to law school, passed the bar, got decent jobs, but couldnt get a man. Had to get fixed up in Rev. wrights Down Low club with a gay man who was goin places. Got a phony job made just for her, got to be First Lady, got to take an entourage all over the world on luxe vacations.
When the f did she remember her middle class roots? When did she ever say, we know it is hard economically for other Americans so we will live frugally with your $ in the WH? Never. She probably only ate fancy expensive food. She took separate planes on some of those trips. She let her mother live in the WH the whole time, even when her kids were way too old for a nanny. She never thought once of the American people. We were just people to be used.
You forgot the guys Obama ordered off the tv like Kal Penn.
michael once again embarrasses himself.
‘Forgot’ being the operative word, all right. I had read some time ago about Obama and Kal Penn, but it had since slipped my mind.
We dont know how many more cute guys he ordered off the tv because he stopped giving them Real Olde Officiale West Wing Titles, and must have controlled their cell phones better so he wouldnt have to send out the hit squad to steal their phones on dark DC streets after their breakup.
All that is true. I maintain that Michelle’s perennial state of anger tells the story most accurately. No woman that is being loved and satisfied with a good man is going to be that angry. Just not possible.
A woman with a husband who is amorous at key/appropriate times will be more relaxed and happy than we ever saw in Michelle. She would be able to muster anger under certain circumstances, but it would be anything but her default mode.
It is to laugh...
For goodness sake. These people are going to have this woman believing she’s a female reincarnation of Thomas Jefferson or Samuel Adams or Winston Churchill or any number of meaningful former members of the human race. She’s not one of THEM! Not by a long shot. Talks a good game tho’, doesn’t she? And people fall for it? No wonder we have so much trouble in this country. None of them know when they’re being played for fools. Poor fools!
How much did the idiots pay her for her words of wisdom?
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