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Title: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: kyzoo on December 08, 2009, 10:14:39 pm: This is either excessively late or premature, depending on your situation.

But let's make a collection of motivational messages.

Here's one to start off

"Motivation follows action. You do things, then you get motivated"
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: xXNovaxX on December 08, 2009, 10:25:54 pm: "don't worry, your ENTER isn't everything it's only a number the important thing is that you try hard"

GOD DAMN IT, THAT ISN'T ANY COMFORT I WORKED MY BUTT OF FOR 6 YEARS, 13 if u include primary school

I am awfulyl sorry, this is more of a de-motivator
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Post by: mandy on December 08, 2009, 10:27:16 pm: Keeping up is easier than catching up.
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Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on December 08, 2009, 10:32:44 pm: If you fail, there's always TAFE.

waitwut
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Post by: shinny on December 08, 2009, 10:35:49 pm: 'Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character' - Albert Einstein

The inverse applies too really; tackling VCE successfully is quite a character-building exercise in itself.
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Post by: monokekie on December 08, 2009, 10:36:24 pm: Quote from: SmRandmAzn on December 08, 2009, 10:32:44 pm
If you fail, there's always TAFE.

waitwut

and you can always transfer and sit more exams
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Post by: ZachCharge on December 08, 2009, 11:05:27 pm: You CAN do it....
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Post by: dejan91 on December 08, 2009, 11:06:09 pm: The road to success is always under construction.
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Post by: Fyrefly on December 09, 2009, 12:59:03 am: That demotivation thread was funnier, I like dejan's quote though.
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: xXNovaxX on December 09, 2009, 01:05:13 am: ^lol I don't think it as meant to be one of those funny threads, think the OP was trying to reduce the gloom surrounding the ENTERs of many hahaha, but yes I agree with both points u made.
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: ninwa on December 09, 2009, 01:09:22 am: You didn't put yourself through 13 years of schooling just to fall at the final hurdle

I had this stuck on my study wall in VCE, it motivated me for about 3 weeks (which is a huge record for me, so it does work :P)
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: Fyrefly on December 09, 2009, 01:11:09 am: Quote from: xXNovaxX on December 09, 2009, 01:05:13 am
^lol I don't think it as meant to be one of those funny threads, think the OP was trying to reduce the gloom surrounding the ENTERs of many hahaha, but yes I agree with both points u made.

Oh, I know.
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Post by: darkphoenix on December 09, 2009, 01:16:37 am: It is now or never.
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Post by: redmosez on December 09, 2009, 04:42:58 am: I find my sig oddly motivational

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: xXNovaxX on December 09, 2009, 11:38:50 am: Quote from: redmosez on December 09, 2009, 04:42:58 am
I find my sig oddly motivational

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett
I noticed ur sig once when I was +ve karma you, it was so good that I posted it on my Facebook wall =P

Hope you don't mind
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Post by: Ilovemathsmeth on December 09, 2009, 11:47:41 am: Impossible as possible: Try and try again and then you will reach your goal

AND

Practice makes perfect.

I love both of them =)
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Post by: minilunchbox on December 09, 2009, 06:16:42 pm: Not exactly messages but still:

I GET KNOCKED DOWN BUT I GET UP AGAIN, YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI

IT'S THE EYE OF THE TIGER IT'S THE THRILL OF THE FIGHT, RISING UP TO THE CHALLENGE OF OUR RIVAL
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Post by: Cataclysmic on December 09, 2009, 06:22:59 pm: If you fail, your parents are going to kick you out the house.
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Post by: physics on December 09, 2009, 06:44:44 pm: FIGHTING!
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Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on December 09, 2009, 07:02:32 pm: Quote from: annahinh on December 09, 2009, 06:44:44 pm
FIGHTING!

you mean HWAITING!!, 화이팅!!
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: xXNovaxX on December 09, 2009, 07:29:16 pm: Quote from: Ilovemathsmeth on December 09, 2009, 11:47:41 am

Practice makes perfect.

I love both of them =)
I hold a lot of respect for you Ilovemathsmeths, but PLEASE do not ever utter that "motivator" again LMAO, the amount of times I have heard it.... hehehe
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: Gloamglozer on December 09, 2009, 08:44:40 pm: Quote from: xXNovaxX on December 09, 2009, 07:29:16 pm
Quote from: Ilovemathsmeth on December 09, 2009, 11:47:41 am

Practice makes perfect.

I love both of them =)
I hold a lot of respect for you Ilovemathsmeths, but PLEASE do not ever utter that "motivator" again LMAO, the amount of times I have heard it.... hehehe

Technically that doesn't quite work. What if you practice wrong or practice using the wrong technique? Then you're actually not practicing to be perfect, but more like practicing to be perfect at doing the wrong thing... If I make any sense.
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: ninwa on December 09, 2009, 08:48:27 pm: To be perfect at doing the wrong thing is still a variant of perfect ;)

see: "perfect crime"
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Post by: xXNovaxX on December 09, 2009, 09:06:30 pm: Ah, I love quotes and proverbs! They seriously challenge you to think and really "rip out" the message <3
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Post by: Fyrefly on December 09, 2009, 09:07:40 pm: Audentes Fortuna Juvat - Fortune Favours the Bold.

Quoted by a BOS member years ago I think... perhaps a VN convert, I don't remember.

Anywayz... to me, it is a reminder that I must first have the courage to try something before I can possibly succeed at it, and that I am usually rewarded for my courage with success... where others hold back and are too afraid, I must be bold enough to step up to the plate.

I hate rejection in all its forms, but this quote reminds me that it is still better to try and fail something than to have never attempted it at all.
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: spizaa #5 on December 09, 2009, 09:23:14 pm: "success only involves having to rise one more time than you fall"
"judge a man by the amount of times he rises after he falls, not by the way he falls"
"you miss 100% of the shots you DONT take"
just give it a red hot crack and if you fail, who cares. you died trying
at the end of the day, vce is all about composure and adopting efficient information retention strategies. if your are clinical and collected, vce will be a breeze. its all about applying your knowledge, not just spewing out dot point after dot point of rote learned info. have confidence in your abilities, drink plenty of water in sacs/exams and always carry a good luck charm (i carried a religious icon and a necklace from my grandfather)
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Post by: kyzoo on December 09, 2009, 09:30:04 pm: "There are no failures. Only learning experiences."

And about drinking water in SACs/exams, I would rather be dehydrated than waste time having to relieve yourself mid-exam. I find that 20 minutes into an exam, I am so focused that I forget about my dehydration. That happened to me on the Method 2 exam, I was sweating so much at the start and I could feel my dehydration, but I didn't even feel it towards the end. Also, dehydration is a more bearable sensation than busting.
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: xXNovaxX on December 09, 2009, 09:31:32 pm: ^LOL, I know exactly what you mean! My mum gave me an ice water bottle ofr EVERY one of ym exams, each time it was still full ><

She couldnt understand why (there were a few days where it was 30+ degrees)

But i tried explaining in the exam u FORGET ur thirsty.....i cbs drinking, just want to wrote, write, write
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: Ilovemathsmeth on December 09, 2009, 09:56:51 pm: Quote from: Gloamglozer on December 09, 2009, 08:44:40 pm
Quote from: xXNovaxX on December 09, 2009, 07:29:16 pm
Quote from: Ilovemathsmeth on December 09, 2009, 11:47:41 am

Practice makes perfect.

I love both of them =)
I hold a lot of respect for you Ilovemathsmeths, but PLEASE do not ever utter that "motivator" again LMAO, the amount of times I have heard it.... hehehe

Technically that doesn't quite work. What if you practice wrong or practice using the wrong technique? Then you're actually not practicing to be perfect, but more like practicing to be perfect at doing the wrong thing... If I make any sense.

LOL well you know, doing more Chem problems leads to thorough understanding, more Maths qs leads to better grasp, etc. That's what I mean. And you can't be using the wrong technique in every question if you do heaps of them and get all of them right etc.
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: xXNovaxX on December 09, 2009, 11:36:10 pm: *I like all of them, except "its hard to beat a person who never gives up"

Thats just so lame LMAO, sorry! Well actually I'm not offending YOU, but who ever came up with it....LOL
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Post by: slothpomba on December 10, 2009, 12:31:26 am: He who dares, wins. (SAS motto)
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: ngRISING on December 10, 2009, 02:30:22 pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tjYoKCBYag

this beats any posts in this thread and any yet to come. :)
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: Collin Li on December 10, 2009, 02:45:10 pm: There are people who say they will do things, and there are people who do things.
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Post by: ninwa on December 10, 2009, 02:48:29 pm: Quote from: ngRISING on December 10, 2009, 02:30:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tjYoKCBYag

this beats any posts in this thread and any yet to come. :)

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team?!
The Beatles were rejected?!

I lol thinking of how those rejection directors etc. must be feeling now... :P
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Post by: nbalakers24 on December 10, 2009, 07:04:41 pm: "I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
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Post by: kyzoo on December 11, 2009, 11:04:57 am: "Your desire is your future"
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Post by: hard on December 11, 2009, 11:36:34 am: love
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Post by: samuch on December 11, 2009, 05:27:30 pm: Quote from: ngRISING on December 10, 2009, 02:30:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tjYoKCBYag

this beats any posts in this thread and any yet to come. :)

this is pretty motivational :)
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Post by: xXNovaxX on December 11, 2009, 05:31:10 pm: LMAO,

I found this funny
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Post by: samuch on December 11, 2009, 05:34:32 pm: ^ that second one isnt very nice :( poor little bug

i found the first one funny tho haha :)
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Post by: xXNovaxX on December 11, 2009, 05:36:08 pm: Hahah yeah, at first (about the mario one) I just saw the image and the heading PERSEVERANCE, and im like....thats lame, but i decided to enlarge it to read the smaller text then it was funny
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: nbalakers24 on December 12, 2009, 03:11:25 am: Quote from: Collin Li on December 10, 2009, 02:45:10 pm
There are people who say they will do things, and there are people who do things.

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. "
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: anonuser0511 on December 12, 2009, 04:23:34 am: Quote from: Gloamglozer on December 09, 2009, 08:44:40 pm
Quote from: xXNovaxX on December 09, 2009, 07:29:16 pm
Quote from: Ilovemathsmeth on December 09, 2009, 11:47:41 am

Practice makes perfect.

I love both of them =)
I hold a lot of respect for you Ilovemathsmeths, but PLEASE do not ever utter that "motivator" again LMAO, the amount of times I have heard it.... hehehe

Technically that doesn't quite work. What if you practice wrong or practice using the wrong technique? Then you're actually not practicing to be perfect, but more like practicing to be perfect at doing the wrong thing... If I make any sense.
yea practice makes permanent not perfect

I'm going to go with

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
-Aristotle
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: Gloamglozer on December 12, 2009, 12:37:01 pm: Quote from: xXNovaxX on December 11, 2009, 05:31:10 pm
LMAO,

I found this funny

Ah, demotivational posters. Love them.
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: slothpomba on December 13, 2009, 03:06:43 am: i think this pretty much balances out the thread...
(http://site.despair.com/images/dpage/potential03.jpg)
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Post by: minilunchbox on December 13, 2009, 12:22:36 pm: (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M0cuxJsSjdU/SXjUGJc6vkI/AAAAAAAAICk/Ko7REWjVaUM/s400/if-you-dont-study-you-shall-not-pass-500x318.jpg)
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Post by: m@tty on December 13, 2009, 12:30:38 pm: That's awesome. :2funny:
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Post by: mandy on December 13, 2009, 04:53:50 pm: Success only comes before work in the dictionary.
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Post by: samuch on December 13, 2009, 04:54:49 pm: Quote from: mandy on December 13, 2009, 04:53:50 pm
Success only comes before work in the dictionary.
i like this :)
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: Lighties on December 13, 2009, 07:48:31 pm: Quote from: kingpomba on December 13, 2009, 03:06:43 am
i think this pretty much balances out the thread...
(http://site.despair.com/images/dpage/potential03.jpg)

I rather like the defeat one :)
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: kyzoo on December 13, 2009, 08:02:30 pm: Quote from: kingpomba on December 13, 2009, 03:06:43 am
i think this pretty much balances out the thread...

Someone needs to unbalance this thread again =/
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: mandy on December 13, 2009, 10:03:43 pm: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
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Post by: m@tty on December 13, 2009, 10:04:57 pm: Quote from: mandy on December 13, 2009, 10:03:43 pm
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
That's good.
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: Devoted on December 14, 2009, 01:51:23 pm: Quote from: nbalakers24 on December 10, 2009, 07:04:41 pm
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

I love this one, truly inspirational.
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: Collin Li on December 27, 2009, 11:30:42 am: "Remember no man is a failure who has friends"
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Post by: Collin Li on December 27, 2009, 11:40:30 am: For maths (but I found it on an entrepreneurial blog, but it still works on maths and other problems):

"The temptation is to work on the solution without first thinking about the problem."
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: TrueLight on December 27, 2009, 11:29:39 pm: Quote from: Collin Li on December 27, 2009, 11:40:30 am
For maths (but I found it on an entrepreneurial blog, but it still works on maths and other problems):

"The temptation is to work on the solution without first thinking about the problem."

good quote...a lot of politcians do that too
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: xXNovaxX on December 31, 2009, 05:58:49 pm: Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together- Vincent Van Gogh

Plant the seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capabale of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses. - Norman Vincent Peale

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land upon the stars- Les Brown

The way I see it if you want a rainbow, you got to put up with the rain

Be like a postage stamp, stick to something until you get there

Many, many more here http://www.vcehelp.com.au/resources/AWordOnSuccessQuoteBook.pdf
Title: Re: Motivational Messages Thread
Post by: kyzoo on December 31, 2009, 09:39:51 pm: Quote from: xXNovaxX on December 31, 2009, 05:58:49 pm

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land upon the stars- Les Brown

Many, many more here http://www.vcehelp.com.au/resources/AWordOnSuccessQuoteBook.pdf

I see.