Extraordinary!

"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released."

Jean Houston - is an author of 15 books and one of the founders of the Human Potential Movement. Ph.D. Jean Houston was born in 10 May 1937 in New Yourk City as she said in her self-published autobiography "A Mythic Life, 1996". She educated herself well and achieved a B.A. from Barnard College, a Ph.D. in psychology from the Union Graduate School, and a Ph.D. in religion from the Graduate Theological Foundation.

Schooling!

"I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education."

Mark Twain

Passion!

"There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that idles than the one you are capable of living."

Nelson Mandela

Capability!

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

Thomas Edison – February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931. An American scientist, businessman, inventor, and pioneer of distance learning - phongraph, lightbulb and other devices. He was born in Milan, Ohio to be one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the invention process. His family - the Dutch Edison - immigrated to New Jersey in 1730.
He began his inventory career in Newark, New Jersey with the automatic repeater and other telegraphic devices, but he gained fame when he invent the phonograph in 1877.

Experience!

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Oscar Wilde – October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900. He was Anglo-Irish playwright, poet, novelist and short story writer. He was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalene College, Oxford. His first volume of poetry was published in 1881. He established his name as a writer since 1878. The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Happy Prince and Other Tales considered amongst his best work. He wrote and produced comedies such as Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. His life and death are tragedies as he died in a hotel in France in 1900 three years after his release from prison (He was convicted of sexuality).

Intellect

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

Abraham Lincoln – 16th US President, 1861 - 1865. He was born on February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky and died after being shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. by John Wilkes Booth, an actor. He built the Republican Party and he was the first president to be elected from that party. He stood firm defending the human rights and preserving the Union and ending the slavery by his Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He rallied most of the Northern Democrats to the Union cause during the Civil War. He called for the Southerners to lay down their arms and join the union. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation to declare forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. He was preceded by James Buchanan.

Talent

"Every artist was first an amateur."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882. American writer, poet, essayist, spiritual teacher
and philosopher. Some sources refer to him as a leader of the transcendentalist
movement. He was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston / Massachusetts.

Planning!

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."

Victor Hugo, February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885. French poet. Romantic writer.
As a leftist he supported the Republicans and the European Union. His best works are Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. He defended the human rights during the reign of King Louis Philippe in 1841 and spoke criticized the death penalty and the social injustice standing in the line defending the freedom of the press and calling for self-government for Poland. He criticized Napoleon when the late seized power in 1851 and confiscated democracy. Hugo fled to Brussels then to Jersey until he settled with his family on Guemsey.

Courage!

"They can conquer who believe they can."

Virgil - October 15, 70 BC- September 21,19 BC. Roman / Latin Poet. The Aeneid he wrote and took his last ten years is an epic poeom that became the Roman Empire's national epic. It tells about the Trojan hero Aeneas escape to Italy and his love to Dido the queen of Cathage when she welcomed him during his escape. He wrote six of the last books on the light of Homer's Odyssey. He was born in a village called Andes south of the Alps; north of Italy nowadays. He studied rhetoric astronomy and medicine in Rome. He abanoned astronomy soon to philosophy.

Challenges!

"After climbing a great hill, one finds many more hills to climb."

Nelson Mandela - 18 July 1918 - The first elected president of South Africa. Leader of the African National Congress (ANC). Jailed for life after the banning of the ANC in 1960 during the apartheid policy led by the minority White. He led his party from prison with the help of his wife and comrades. Upon his release in 1990, he switched from the armed struggle to reconciliation. He enjoyed the presidency from 1994-1999 then retired to leave the power to Thabo Mbeki. He won Nobel Peace Prize 1993