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This timeless quote by Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett has served as an inspiration for Tavis Smiley’s unprecedented success. By reflecting on his missteps, misdeeds, and miscalculations, the award-winning television and radio broadcaster has learned that while failure is an inevitable part of the human journey, it can also serve as your wisest teacher. As he celebrates his 20th year in broadcasting, Smiley urges you to reconsider how you view your past mistakes. Every day that you wake up, you get another chance to get it right, to bounce back from failures big and small—to fail... more
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Walter M. KimbroughTavis Smiley has a great book, “Fail Up,” about those lessons we can learn when things don’t work quite right. https://t.co/MRU5yGEYJL (Source)

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Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years.

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no.
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Walter M. Kimbrough@JerikaMarshae @itsreeyon Would love to have this conversation with you all + @laulyyyyyy — there is a great book that addresses this: https://t.co/v3h5Ct2YDC (Source)

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The Time Is Now

Julie Rowe’s first book, A Greater Tomorrow, told of her near-death experience in 2004. During her visit to the Spirit World, she was shown a panorama of the earth’s history and future. In this new volume, Julie focuses on giving additional details about the future events she was shown, and how we can best prepare for them.

Julie shares what she saw concerning:

• The hastening of the Lord’s work
• The power of family history and temple work
• Spiritual and temporal preparations for the future
• The gathering of the righteous to places of safety
•...
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Walter M. KimbroughJust finished this great book by @JoanDChittister - lots of good quotes. She says the world “waits for some wise and wild voices to lead us back to spiritual sanity... the prophet is the person who says no to everything that is not of God.” https://t.co/SUAcjNZr8Q (Source)

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Since 1976, when the busing riots in Boston sent me scrambling into the radio station at WRBB at Northeastern University, the music industry has been my life. During my very first stint in radio, I was Paul “Pure Love” Porter from midnight to 3 a.m., and I fell in love with the medium of radio and the impact I had on my community. Radio introduced me to women. Radio introduced me to cocaine. Radio introduced me to some of my best friends. And radio killed some of them too. Blackout is a ride through my whirlwind of media jobs, working for and with some of the music industry’s most colorful,... more
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Walter M. KimbroughI would suggest reading @PorterOnAir ‘s book BLACKOUT to add some context to how interesting these remarks are... https://t.co/mBF0acV4Tt (Source)

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