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"If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right."
The following is adapted from the commencement address by Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University of Texas at Austin on May 17.
The University of Texas slogan is "What starts here changes the world."
"The munchkin boat crew had one American Indian, one African-American, one Polish-American, one Greek-American, one Italian-American and two tough kids from the Midwest.
They out-paddled, out-ran and out-swam all the other boat crews.
The big men in the other boat crews would always make good-natured fun of the tiny little flippers the munchkins put on their tiny little feet prior to every swim.
But somehow these little guys, from every corner of the nation and the world, always had the last laugh—swimming faster than everyone and reaching the shore long before the rest of us.
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2014/05/16/admiral-mcraven-commencement-speech/
I encourage any intelligent compassionate person who thinks for themselves to read this and be challenged as this Navy SEAL
challenged the 2014 graduates!
The following is adapted from the commencement address by Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University of Texas at Austin on May 17.
The University of Texas slogan is "What starts here changes the world."
"The munchkin boat crew had one American Indian, one African-American, one Polish-American, one Greek-American, one Italian-American and two tough kids from the Midwest.
They out-paddled, out-ran and out-swam all the other boat crews.
The big men in the other boat crews would always make good-natured fun of the tiny little flippers the munchkins put on their tiny little feet prior to every swim.
But somehow these little guys, from every corner of the nation and the world, always had the last laugh—swimming faster than everyone and reaching the shore long before the rest of us.
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2014/05/16/admiral-mcraven-commencement-speech/
I encourage any intelligent compassionate person who thinks for themselves to read this and be challenged as this Navy SEAL
challenged the 2014 graduates!
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