Video Transcript:
LouAnne: “Hey, listen. Nobody’s forcing you to be here. You have a choice. You can stay, or you can leave.”
Male Student: “Lady, why are you playing this game? We don’t have a choice.”
LouAnne: “You don’t have a choice? You don’t have a choice on whether or not you’re here?”
Male Student:” No. lf we leave, we don’t get to graduate. lf we stay, we got to put up with you.”
LouAnne: “Well, that’s a choice, isn’t it? You have a choice. You either don’t graduate or you have to put up with me. lt may not be a choice you like, but it is a choice.”
Female Student: “Man, you don’t understand nothing. I mean, you don’t come from where we live. You’re not bussed here.”
LouAnne: “Do you have a choice to get on that bus?”
Female Student: “Man, you come and live in my neighbourhood for one week and then you tell me if you got a choice.”
LouAnne: “There are a lot of people who live in your neighbourhood who choose NOT to get on that bus. What do they choose to do? They choose to go out and sell drugs. They choose to go out and kill people. They choose to do a lot of other things. But they choose not to get on that bus.
The people who choose to get on that bus, which are YOU, are the people who are saying, “I will not carry myself down to die. When I go to my grave, my head will be high.” That is a choice!
There are no VICTIMS in this classroom!”
Female Student: “Why do you care anyway? You just here for the money.”
LouAnne: “Because I make a choice to care. And honey, the money ain’t that good.”
Female Student: “Whatever.”
Note: I miss my school days…
Month: January 2015
Why Do We Fall – Motivational Video
Video Transcript:
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as Life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! (Rocky Balboa)
PAIN is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year; but eventually it will subside, and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever. (Lance Armstrong)
The margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One-half second too slow, too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second. (Any Given Sunday)
You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period. (The Pursuit of Happyness)
Don’t be afraid to fail. You can’t always win but don’t be afraid of making decisions. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
You have to believe in something different can happen. He who says he can and he who says he can’t are both usually right. (Henry Ford)
Most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don’t want it badder than you wanna party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep! (Eric Thomas)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. (Marianne Williamson)
You have to dig deep down, dig deep down and ask yourselves, who do you want to be? And figuring it out for yourself what makes you happy, no matter how crazy it may sound to the people. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Make a choice. Just decide what it’s going to be, who you’re going to be, how you’re going to do it. Just DECIDE! (Will Smith)
Why not? Why can’t I be the MVP of the league? Why can’t I be the best player in the league? I don’t see why not. Why can’t I do that? (Derrick Rose)
What did you say to the kid? It ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. Get up. Get up, but don’t ever give up. (Rocky Balboa)
We can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell… one inch at a time. (Any Given Sunday)
To be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become. Most of you won’t be successful because when you’re studying, and you get tired, you quit! I don’t do well in math, your right. You ain’t never studied. I’m not good at writing, coz you have never written before! (Eric Thomas)
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. (Will Smith)
If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. (Will Smith)
Don’t cry to give up. Cry to keep going. Don’t cry to quit! You already in pain, you already hurt! Get a reward from it! (Eric Thomas)
Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that! (Rocky Balboa)
Because every day is a new day! Every moment is a new moment! So now you’ve gotta go out and show them that I’m a different creature. Now! (Ray Lewis)
I am gonna show you how great I am! (Muhammed Ali)
In the 17th Chapter of St. Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” — not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power — the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. (Charlie Chaplin)
Now… What are you gonna do? (Any Given Sunday)
Because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. (Michael Jordan)