“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”- Mark Twain
“Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.”- Unknown
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until b
“Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.”- T.E. Lawrencerought to a focus.”- Alexander Graham Bell
“Who dares, wins” –British SAS
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Today I will do the things that other people won’t, so tomorrow I can do the things that other people can’t” – Unknown
“We’ll operate with no excuses. There are no excuses. You succeed or you don’t.”
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” -
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure…life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller
“Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”
-Winston Churchill
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands at times of comfort and convenience, but at times of challenge and adversity.”-Unknown
“Why tip toe through life, to arrive safely at death? If you’re gonna be afraid to live, what’s the point?”-Unknown
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” –Theodore Roosevelt
“I want to be the best. So whatever comes with that, I have to accept it.” - Sidney Crosby
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” -John F. Kennedy
“Remember, if it was easy, everyone would do it. Champions are built brick by painful brick and that can take a lifetime. Sometimes it can happen without anyone even bothering to notice. Take heart. The mountains you climb can’t always be seen by an audience… Still, you must not stop climbing. For, in all their sophomoric hubris, whatever actions men take, or do not take, the mountain remains.”- Unknown
“We will either find a way, or make one!”- Hannibal
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Nothing on earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”- Thomas Jefferson
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
University of Georgia. Graduate studies.
Admission to the Department of Romance Languages is for the Fall semester starting in August. The Department must have all of your application materials by January 1st. The Graduate School may have different deadlines. Deadlines for UGA Graduate School
Students must have a B.A. degree in the language of study or equivalent to enter our M.A. programs and a M.A. or equivalent to enter our Ph.D. program.
Since admission is granted by both the Graduate School and the Department of Romance Languages, there are two parts to your application for admission. You must complete both parts by the departmental deadline of January 1st.
Part 1. Application to the Graduate School
First, you must apply to the Graduate School. All information can be found at the Graduate School Admissions web site, where you can apply online. The Graduate School will need a completed application form, payment of an application fee, official transcripts from any institutions of higher education you have attended, and official GRE (Graduate Record Examination) scores. No subject GRE is needed. TOEFL (Test of English As a Foreign Language) scores are also required for applicants whose primary language is not English. On the TOEFL (if required) a combined score of 80 is necessary for admission, and a 26 on the spoken section is necessary to hold a teaching assistantship.
International applicants require some additional information and forms available at the Graduate School web site.
Part 2. Application to the Department
You will also need to apply directly to the Department of Romance Languages. The materials below must be sent as hard copies to the following address:
Graduate Coordinator, Romance Languages
University of Georgia
Gilbert Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1815
U.S.A.
University of Georgia
Gilbert Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1815
U.S.A.
The forms below work best with Adobe software.
- Academic background. Download the Graduate Application Form.
- Statement of purpose. Your 1-2 page statement should include a description of any personal, professional, or educational experiences that have prepared you or contributed to your desire to pursue advanced study in Romance Languages, as well as a description of your tentative study interests and your career goals. Send this to us directly
- Curriculum vitae. Your CV should include any honors, awards, teaching or research experience.
- Three recommendations. You should request 3 letters of recommendation from people who can describe your academic accomplishments and your readiness for graduate study. The letters should be submitted electronically by January 1 through the UGA Graduate School website, or they can be mailed directly by your recommenders to the Department of Romance Languages using the following Recommendation Form.
- A writing sample, such as a research paper, in the language of study (7-10 pages for M.A. applicants, 10-20 pages for Ph.D. applicants).
- Application for teaching assistantship. Download the Graduate Assistantship Application Form.
To confirm that your materials have been received and your application is complete, please contact Ms. Amy Duran.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Amy Duran
Administrative Specialist I
asimonep@uga.edu
Phone 706-542-3591
http://www.rom.uga.edu/graduate-admissions#overlay-context=graduate-program
Administrative Specialist I
asimonep@uga.edu
Phone 706-542-3591
http://www.rom.uga.edu/graduate-admissions#overlay-context=graduate-program
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Napoleon Hill. Laws of success
I. A DEFINITE CHIEF AIM will teach you how
to save the wasted effort which the majority
of people expend in trying to find their
lifework. This lesson will show you how to
do away forever with aimlessness and fix
your heart and hand upon some definite, well
conceived purpose as a life-work.
II. SELF-CONFIDENCE will help you master
the six basic fears with which every person is
cursed-the fear of Poverty, the fear of Ill
Health, the fear of Old Age, the fear of
Criticism, the fear of Loss of Love of
Someone and the fear of Death. It will teach
you the difference between egotism and real
self-confidence which is based upon definite,
usable knowledge.
III. HABIT OF SAVING will teach you how to
distribute your income systematically so that
a definite percentage of it will steadily
accumulate, thus forming one of the greatest
known sources of personal power. No one
may succeed in life without saving money.
There is no exception to this rule, and no one
may escape it.
IV. INITIATIVE AND LEADERSHIP will show
you how to become a leader instead of a
follower in your chosen field of endeavor. It
will develop in you the instinct for
leadership which will cause you gradually to
gravitate to the top in all undertakings in
which you participate.
- 26 - V. IMAGINATION will stimulate your mind so
that you will conceive new ideas and develop
new plans which will help you in attaining
the object of your Definite Chief Aim. This
lesson will teach you how to "build new
houses out of old stones," so to speak. It will
show you how to create new ideas out of old,
well known concepts, and how to put old
ideas to new uses. This one lesson, alone, is
the equivalent of a very practical course in
salesmanship, and it is sure to prove a
veritable gold mine of knowledge to the
person who is in earnest.
VI. ENTHUSIASM will enable you to "saturate"
all with whom you come in contact with
interest in you and in your ideas. Enthusiasm
is the foundation of a Pleasing Personality,
and you must have such a personality in
order to influence others to co-operate with
you.
VII. SELF-CONTROL is the "balance wheel" with
which you control your enthusiasm and direct
it where you wish it to carry you. This lesson
will teach you, in a most practical manner, to
become "the master of your fate, the Captain
of your Soul."
VIII. THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN PAID
FOR is one of the most important lessons of
the Law of Success course. It will teach you
how to take advantage of the Law of
Increasing Returns, which will eventually
insure you a return in money far out of
proportion to the service you render. No one
may become a real leader in any walk of life
- 27 - without practicing the habit of doing more
work and better work than that for which he
is paid.
IX. PLEASING PERSONALITY is the "fulcrum"
on which you must place the "crow-bar" of
your efforts, and when so placed, with
intelligence, it will enable you to remove
mountains of obstacles. This one lesson,
alone, has made scores of Master Salesmen.
It has developed leaders over night. It will
teach you how to transform your personality
so that you may adapt yourself to any
environment, or to any other personality, in
such a manner that you may easily dominate.
X. ACCURATE THINKING is one of the
important foundation stones of all enduring
success. This lesson teaches you how to
separate "facts" from mere "information." It
teaches you how to organize known facts into
two classes: the "important" and the
"unimportant." It teaches you how to
determine what is an "important" fact. It
teaches you how to build definite working
plans, in the pursuit of any calling, out of
FACTS.
XI. CONCENTRATION teaches you how to focus
your attention upon one subject at a time
until you have worked out practical plans for
mastering that subject. It will teach you how
to ally yourself with others in such a manner
that you may have the use of their entire
knowledge to back you up in your own plans
and purposes. It will give you a practical
working knowledge of the forces around you,
and show you how to harness and use these
- 28 -
If you must slander
someone don't speak it-
but write it - write it in
the sand, near the water's
edge!
- Napoleon Hill.
- 29 - forces in furthering your own interests.
XII. CO-OPERATION will teach you the value of
team-work in all you do. In this lesson you
will be taught how to apply the law of the
"Master Mind" described in this Introduction
and in Lesson Two of this course. This lesson
will show you how to co-ordinate your own
efforts with those of others, in such a manner
that friction, jealousy, strife, envy and
cupidity will be eliminated. You will learn
how to make use of all that other people have
learned about the work in which you are
engaged.
XIII. PROFITING BY FAILURE will teach you
how to make stepping stones out of all of
your past and future mistakes and failures. It
will teach you the difference between
"failure" and "temporary defeat," a difference
which is very great and very important. It
will teach you how to profit by your own
failures and by the failures of other people.
XIV. TOLERANCE will teach you how to avoid
the disastrous effects of racial and religious
prejudices which mean defeat for millions of
people who permit themselves to become
entangled in foolish argument over these
subjects, thereby poisoning their own minds
and closing the door to reason and
investigation. This lesson is the twin sister of
the one on ACCURATE THOUGHT, for the
reason that no one may become an Accurate
Thinker without practicing tolerance.
Intolerance closes the book of Knowledge
and writes on the cover, "Finis! I have
- 30 - learned it all!" Intolerance makes enemies of
those who should be friends. It destroys
opportunity and fills the mind with doubt,
mistrust and prejudice.
XV. PRACTICING THE GOLDEN RULE will
teach you how to make use of this great
universal law of human conduct in such a
manner that you may easily get harmonious
co-operation from any individual or group of
individuals. Lack of understanding of the law
upon which the Golden Rule philosophy is
based is one of the major causes of failure of
millions of people who remain in misery,
poverty and want all their lives. This lesson
has nothing whatsoever to do with religion in
any form, nor with sectarianism, nor have
any of the other lessons of this course on the
Law of Success.
to save the wasted effort which the majority
of people expend in trying to find their
lifework. This lesson will show you how to
do away forever with aimlessness and fix
your heart and hand upon some definite, well
conceived purpose as a life-work.
II. SELF-CONFIDENCE will help you master
the six basic fears with which every person is
cursed-the fear of Poverty, the fear of Ill
Health, the fear of Old Age, the fear of
Criticism, the fear of Loss of Love of
Someone and the fear of Death. It will teach
you the difference between egotism and real
self-confidence which is based upon definite,
usable knowledge.
III. HABIT OF SAVING will teach you how to
distribute your income systematically so that
a definite percentage of it will steadily
accumulate, thus forming one of the greatest
known sources of personal power. No one
may succeed in life without saving money.
There is no exception to this rule, and no one
may escape it.
IV. INITIATIVE AND LEADERSHIP will show
you how to become a leader instead of a
follower in your chosen field of endeavor. It
will develop in you the instinct for
leadership which will cause you gradually to
gravitate to the top in all undertakings in
which you participate.
- 26 - V. IMAGINATION will stimulate your mind so
that you will conceive new ideas and develop
new plans which will help you in attaining
the object of your Definite Chief Aim. This
lesson will teach you how to "build new
houses out of old stones," so to speak. It will
show you how to create new ideas out of old,
well known concepts, and how to put old
ideas to new uses. This one lesson, alone, is
the equivalent of a very practical course in
salesmanship, and it is sure to prove a
veritable gold mine of knowledge to the
person who is in earnest.
VI. ENTHUSIASM will enable you to "saturate"
all with whom you come in contact with
interest in you and in your ideas. Enthusiasm
is the foundation of a Pleasing Personality,
and you must have such a personality in
order to influence others to co-operate with
you.
VII. SELF-CONTROL is the "balance wheel" with
which you control your enthusiasm and direct
it where you wish it to carry you. This lesson
will teach you, in a most practical manner, to
become "the master of your fate, the Captain
of your Soul."
VIII. THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN PAID
FOR is one of the most important lessons of
the Law of Success course. It will teach you
how to take advantage of the Law of
Increasing Returns, which will eventually
insure you a return in money far out of
proportion to the service you render. No one
may become a real leader in any walk of life
- 27 - without practicing the habit of doing more
work and better work than that for which he
is paid.
IX. PLEASING PERSONALITY is the "fulcrum"
on which you must place the "crow-bar" of
your efforts, and when so placed, with
intelligence, it will enable you to remove
mountains of obstacles. This one lesson,
alone, has made scores of Master Salesmen.
It has developed leaders over night. It will
teach you how to transform your personality
so that you may adapt yourself to any
environment, or to any other personality, in
such a manner that you may easily dominate.
X. ACCURATE THINKING is one of the
important foundation stones of all enduring
success. This lesson teaches you how to
separate "facts" from mere "information." It
teaches you how to organize known facts into
two classes: the "important" and the
"unimportant." It teaches you how to
determine what is an "important" fact. It
teaches you how to build definite working
plans, in the pursuit of any calling, out of
FACTS.
XI. CONCENTRATION teaches you how to focus
your attention upon one subject at a time
until you have worked out practical plans for
mastering that subject. It will teach you how
to ally yourself with others in such a manner
that you may have the use of their entire
knowledge to back you up in your own plans
and purposes. It will give you a practical
working knowledge of the forces around you,
and show you how to harness and use these
- 28 -
If you must slander
someone don't speak it-
but write it - write it in
the sand, near the water's
edge!
- Napoleon Hill.
- 29 - forces in furthering your own interests.
XII. CO-OPERATION will teach you the value of
team-work in all you do. In this lesson you
will be taught how to apply the law of the
"Master Mind" described in this Introduction
and in Lesson Two of this course. This lesson
will show you how to co-ordinate your own
efforts with those of others, in such a manner
that friction, jealousy, strife, envy and
cupidity will be eliminated. You will learn
how to make use of all that other people have
learned about the work in which you are
engaged.
XIII. PROFITING BY FAILURE will teach you
how to make stepping stones out of all of
your past and future mistakes and failures. It
will teach you the difference between
"failure" and "temporary defeat," a difference
which is very great and very important. It
will teach you how to profit by your own
failures and by the failures of other people.
XIV. TOLERANCE will teach you how to avoid
the disastrous effects of racial and religious
prejudices which mean defeat for millions of
people who permit themselves to become
entangled in foolish argument over these
subjects, thereby poisoning their own minds
and closing the door to reason and
investigation. This lesson is the twin sister of
the one on ACCURATE THOUGHT, for the
reason that no one may become an Accurate
Thinker without practicing tolerance.
Intolerance closes the book of Knowledge
and writes on the cover, "Finis! I have
- 30 - learned it all!" Intolerance makes enemies of
those who should be friends. It destroys
opportunity and fills the mind with doubt,
mistrust and prejudice.
XV. PRACTICING THE GOLDEN RULE will
teach you how to make use of this great
universal law of human conduct in such a
manner that you may easily get harmonious
co-operation from any individual or group of
individuals. Lack of understanding of the law
upon which the Golden Rule philosophy is
based is one of the major causes of failure of
millions of people who remain in misery,
poverty and want all their lives. This lesson
has nothing whatsoever to do with religion in
any form, nor with sectarianism, nor have
any of the other lessons of this course on the
Law of Success.
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