HE WILL KNOW

"The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching." - John Wooden

He Will Know

A gentleman once visited a museum under construction. There, he saw a sculptor making a statue of a prominent personality. Just then, he noticed a similar sculpture lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor,

"Do you need two statues of the same personality?"

"No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged after it was unveiled the last time."

The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage.

"I can't seem to find the damage?" he complained.

HERE IS NOT THERE IV

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama 

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The biggest challenge, in the difference between here and there is the man in the middle. Have you ever noticed, that nothing else is more difficult to change than yourself: nobody else is more difficult to change than you? Gandhi said, "Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

Howard Henricks once said that the clerk of Abbington Presbytery, outside of Philadelphia, approximately 100 years ago gave five kinds of attitudes about change. The statistical presentation is quite disturbing. He said:
1. Early innovators (2.6%), run with new ideas

HERE IS NOT THERE III

"The world as we have created it, is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein 

The problem, as I see it in most cases, is not change in itself, but how it is perceived. In other words, it is actually not that change is our enemy, but that we are enemies of change. To deal with this phenomenon therefore, will take us now to how change is communicated and how it is perceived.
Teenagers are much more inclined to take warnings about steroids seriously, if the drugs' muscle-building benefits are acknowledged in the same speech: say doctors at Oregon Health Sciences University. That was the case when the doctors, lectured nine high school football teams, on the effects of steroids. They found that football players who heard a balanced presentation, on steroids, were fifty percent more likely to believe that the drugs could harm their health than those who were told just of the dangers.

HERE IS NOT THERE II

"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes." - Hugh Prather

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Change can be very difficult some times and at other times, it can be comforting. It is not that change is a part of life: actually, change is life.

In 1886, Karl Benz drove his first automobile through the streets of Munich, Germany. He named his car the Mercedes Benz, after his daughter, Mercedes. The machine angered the citizens, because it was noisy and scared the children and horses. Pressured by the citizens, the local officials immediately established a speed limit for "horseless carriages" of 3.5MPH in the city limits, and 7MPH outside. Benz knew he could never develop a market for his car and compete against horses with such speed limits. He invited the mayor of the town for a ride, to which the mayor accepted. Benz then arranged for a milk man to park his horse and wagon on a certain street: to whip up his old horse to speed pass them, as Benz and the mayor drove by. The plan worked: the

HERE IS NOT THERE

"Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw

Here is not there, is a simple statement indicating that there is a clear cut difference between point A, for instance and point B - between your past, present and your future. Between your childhood and adulthood, between your singleness and marriage. The point is, if by any means one happens to lack an understanding of the difference involved, whatever the case may be, then chaos is bound to follow by default. That difference is the underlying change factor. 

So John Kennedy said, "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

When the railroads were first introduced to the U.S., some folks feared that they'd be the downfall of the nation! Here's an excerpt from a letter to then President Jackson dated January 31, 1829: As you may know, Mr. President, 'railroad' carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by 'engines' which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed. Martin Van Buren Governor of New York