This beautiful face belongs to Ann Nixon Cooper. She is better known, I suppose, as the Oldest American Voter. The southern lady hails from Atlanta, Georgia, and is currently the one person I’d most want to sit down and talk with.
Not just because of the history that she has lived through and not just because of her longevity. Sure, I’d love to hear her first-hand accounts of the different Presidential terms she’s seen, the wars, the moments that shaped our nation and our world. And I would hang on her every word when she spoke of her favorite foods and drinks. Obviously the lady is onto something the experts only think they know.
After all, she’s outliving all of them!
The main reason I’d love to sit down and visit with her is her smile and her attitude. She exudes the warmth, strength, charm, and loveliness that you’d expect from a southern lady.
When asked about the secret to her longevity, Ann Nixon Cooper gave us our quote of the day: “Being Cheerful had a lot to do with it I’ve always been a happy person, a giggling person – a wide-mouthed person!”
Oh, I love her all right.
Photo Credit: The History Makers
A year from now, you may wish you’d started today. – Karen Lamb
Okay, okay. Enough already. No more looking back at things we wish we’d done differently in 2008. That ship has sailed and is becoming smaller and smaller on life’s horizon. No need standing on the shore watching it, is there? Let’s focus on where we want to be in 2010 and let’s focus on who we want to be in 2010. Get a clear picture of precisely what and who that is, then find a way to make it happen.
“Multi-tasking is dead. It never worked and it never will. Intelligent people love to sing its praises because it gives them permission to avoid the much more challenging alternative: focusing on one thing.” – Timothy Ferriss
When it comes to multi-tasking, are you a believer or do you side with Mr. Ferriss? Which is more important – trying to cover as much ground as possible or focusing all of your energy, more or less, in one spot?
I look forward to your thoughts because, to be honest, mine are all over the place! I can see both sides and I don’t really lean this way or that way. Geez, even my thoughts try to mulit-task.
That’s just a bit too disheartening for me to get my mind around right at 11:00 at night, so I’m rounding up all of my thoughts and taking them to bed.
A Winner will find a way to win. Winners take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves to be that much better. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as a reason to give up. It’s all a matter of pride. – Nancy Lopez, LPGA Hall of Fame Golfer
by joi on October 20, 2008
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“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I’m halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God….I could be eating a slow learner.” – Lynda Montgomery
“If you bang your head against a brick wall long enough, the wall will fall.” And once you start banging your head against that wall, others will join you. – Ingrid E. Newkirk, One Can Make a Difference pages xiv and xv
You know how you normally say, “I just read this book…” or “I just read that book.” In regards to the book this quote was pulled from, One Can Make a Difference, by Ingrid E. Newkirk, the appropriate quote is, “This book recently changed me.”
I’m working on my book review for this amazing book – hopefully I’ll have it up tomorrow. Amazing book.
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. – The Eagles, “Already Gone”
The next time you’re listening to a song by The Eagles, pay close attention to the lyrics. Their songs are very well-written and, of course, flawlessly executed.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass! -Paul J. Meyer
