Character Is Everything: What Is Diligence?
A journalist asked Thomas Edison, “What do you think is the first requirement]for success?” “The ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly,” replied the inventor, “without growing weary.” Diligence is more than being busy. It is a quality of dedication. According to Edison, Diligence is applying “physical and mental energies” to the problem at hand “without growing weary” - that is, without losing interest before the task is done. A person who exhibits the character quality of diligence knows how to invest all of their energies into a task that is assigned to him or her and doesn’t allow difficult circumstances to interfere with their progress, and certainly knows how to keep their eye on the prize and press forward to the finish line.
Character Is Everything: What Is Truthfulness?
For some reason people in society believe that there is nothing wrong with lying or bending the truth. People can usually find a way to justify their actions by saying, “Oh, that was just a little white lie,” and they really do believe that there is nothing wrong with lying. What is truthfulness and why is it so important? The definition of the word truthfulness is earning future trust by accurately reporting past facts. People who are truthful earn trust and are viewed by others as being honest. People’s reputations are based upon their ability to tell the truth, and people’s lives can be ruined if they are viewed as liars.
Barack Obama Is Hard Of Hearing
Barack Obama stated on Keith Obermans’s show “The Countdown,” “Hannity and Colmes,” and on “360 With Anderson Cooper” that in the over twenty years while he was attending The Trinity United Church of Christ that he never heard his pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright make the type of inflammatory remarks from the pulpit that have been splashed across the news media and the internet the last day or two. Well Senator Obama, I want to let you know that if you never heard these remarks, then you are hard of hearing or maybe even deaf. In case any of you missed it let me just give you a few excerpts that have been taken from the transcript of Wright’s sermons.
