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If you’re going to do a job, do it right.
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Wording taken from a viewer's transcription of the video, not from a published transcript — we searched and found none: Cal Maritime's own newsroom carries only a pre-event announcement, which is where the 22 April 2017 date comes from. The words are Rigsby's father's, recounted by Rigsby, so the attribution here is to the speech rather than to either man directly.
A better life starts with small, consistent, boring actions you repeat day after day, even when you don't feel like it. One day you turn back and realise you have come farther than you could imagine. Allow life to change for the better.
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When you take ownership of your future, things start happening. Excuses build bridges to nowhere. Don't wait for someone to rescue you. Don't wait for circumstances to be perfect. Be messy, be slow but be consistent. That's the secret to making it big.
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There is a bit of homely philosophy, quoted by Squire Bill Widener, of Widener's Valley, Virginia, which sums up one's duty in life: Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.
Wrongly attributed
Roosevelt did not coin this. He quotes it in his Autobiography and names its author: Squire Bill Widener of Widener's Valley, Virginia, a neighbour with no other claim on posterity. It is now printed on posters and mugs as Roosevelt's own, usually shortened to Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. The sentence around it is the evidence that it was never his.
Rather be an hour early than a minute late.
How you do anything is how you do everything.
If you want a thing done, do it yourself.
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